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Quotes About Security

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
In my opinion the main evil of the present democratic institutions of the United States does not arise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but from their overpowering strength; and I am not so much alarmed at the excessive liberty which reigns in that country as at the very inadequate securities which exist against tyranny.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
The safeguard of morality is religion, and morality is the best security of law and the surest pledge of freedom.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Children don't just need to be loved; they need to know that nothing they do will change the fact that they're loved.
~ Alfie Kohn
If a woman is in trouble, she should always wear blue for protection.
~ Alice Hoffman
Finding your soul mate is like coming home to a house where everything is familiar. You can walk in the dark and know where everything is.
~ Alice Hoffman
Blue must be worn for protection.
~ Alice Hoffman
beach. They were perfectly safe. Michael's head crested the dune again. Then his shoulders, the rump of his blue jeans, the short barrel of his machine gun. He was crawling on his belly along the top of the dune, crushing the sea grass, filling his shirt and the pockets of his pants with sand. She would have to remember to shake him out before he got into the car.
~ Alice McDermott
This role secured "love" for the child—that is, his parents' exploitation. He could sense that he was needed, and this need guaranteed him a measure of existential security.
~ Alice Miller
Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang on to it. You must not let yourself be waylaid and have it taken from you.
~ Alice Munro
I would like to tell you that I am, and you will one day be, forever safe.
~ Alice Sebold
You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen
~ Alice Walker
Be aware that you are always invulnerable to personal attacks inspired by envy and spite.
~ Allen Drury
Electric Networks spread fear of murder on the streets
~ Allen Ginsberg
May no Evil Eye peek thru window, keyhole or gunsight at his white haired face!
~ Allen Ginsberg
It was hard not to wonder, as Whitney put the Tesla in park, whether this could possibly be true. The nature of disaster preparedness was so weird, as no one actually knew which disaster to be scared of. Steel doors, for example, weren't going to help with anthrax. Fifty years of gourmet freeze-dried foodstuffs, which a nearby project promised, weren't going to fix a bad marriage.
~ Amanda Eyre Ward
It was clear: if you were wealthy, you were safe. I'd seen how the summer kids seemed braver than me, reckless, and now I knew why. They could dive off anything, because underneath them was an invisible net of parents, doctors, coaches, teachers, money. If they fell, they had Cape Cod Concierge. If we had been rich, Mack would be alive.
~ Amanda Eyre Ward
ARMY, n. A class of non-producers who defend the nation by devouring everything likely to tempt an enemy to invade.
~ Ambrose Bierce
INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
~ Ambrose Bierce
If he did nothing him and Malacus would end up robbed, and more than likely killed. You have to be realistic about these things.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Money is a different thing to every man, Bialoveld wrote, but always a good thing.
~ Joe Abercrombie
In the end, people don't really care much about being free. They want to be warm and well fed and to not have to worry. In particular, they want to not have to worry about being thrown off a tower for wearing the wrong shoes.
~ Joe Abercrombie
If this phrase the 'balance of power' is to always be an argument for war, the pretense for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.
~ Joe Bright