Quotes About Security

After all, lies about guaranteed security are far more seductive than lectures about personal responsibility.

The Passions of men," Hobbes writes, "are commonly more potent than their Reason." Reason cannot bring happiness, nor can it be used as the goal of a philosophical life. There is no happiness. There is only striving and security and passion. Reason cannot save us from the war of all against all; only the Leviathan, the power of the state, can.21

For the first time in forever, he'll wake up to a new beagle's bark every motning, with a feeling that the world is all right and everyone he cares about is safe and sound

sit within five rows of an exit. Memorize an escape plan. And perhaps most important of all: try to relax.

If they only showed this much spunk when it came to containing the terrorists I don't think we would have such a problem.

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain, by fear, nor to exact obedience, but contrariwise, to free every man from fear, that he may live in all possible security; in other words, to strengthen his natural right to exist and work without injury to himself or others.

God is sure, And in his hands are things secure.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that.

No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

He that's secure is not safe.

Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?

There are three great friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Security without liberty is called prison.

They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. —written for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its Reply to the Governor , 11 November 1755