Quotes About Security

Women should never carry purses in the Metro or on the street in Paris. Unless the bag is purely for show, that is. Money, credit cards and ID should never be put in a purse.

The good news is that while you will get robbed if you stay in Paris long enough and are not vigilant, you're very unlikely to get beaten up or killed.

The payment of taxes gives a right to protection.

Nothing is more important than your family. Nothing comes before your responsibility to watch out for them and provide a home safe from any assault upon them, body or soul.

Proverbs 18:10, "The name of the LORD is a strong tower.

Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks -- no form of government can render us secure. To suppose liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. If there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.

Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own

The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security —

on Democracies: "there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

The character of such a government ought to secure, first, against foreign invasion; secondly, against dissensions between members of the Union, or seditions in particular States; thirdly, to procure to the several States various blessings of which an isolated situation was incapable; fourthly, it should be able to defend itself against encroachment; and fifthly, to be paramount to the State Constitutions.

Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

The best way to avoid danger is to be in a capacity to withstand it.

Also, I sort of had a relationship going with the head of security. Talk about messy break-ups. The last time I saw him, he tried to shoot me in the head." "He?" said Sue. "Come on, Sue," said Pure. "You're an old hippie. You can't be that shocked that I'm gay." "But," said Sue, "You're a Republican.

When you're five years old, trust is another name for love.

A man's house is his castle.

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.

Patriots can flourish only where boundaries are well-defined, hostile, and dangerous.

February 5, 2003, before the conflict began, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told the UN he had absolute proof that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) that were an immediate threat to world security. He declared: "My colleagues, every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions. What we are giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence . . . .

The object of terrorism is to use violence or the threat of violence to create fear and alarm," says Jenkins. "And so terrorism has worked. Certainly, we have been the major contributors to that. We have scared the hell out of ourselves.

Today, the CIA relies so heavily on outside contractors that many case officers have learned that the way to get ahead is to quit—and then come back the following week to the same job as a contractor making twice as much money.