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Quotes About Security

Sometimes the confused includes those who want to hang on to some tradition for their own sense of security and comfort. They may sincerely believe the tradition to be vitally important. They don't see that there is no intrinsic or doctrinal value in these items.
~ Thom S. Rainer
It happens very often that those whom men esteem highly are more seriously endangered by their own excessive confidence. Hence, for many it is better not to be too free from temptations, but often to be tried lest they become too secure, too filled with pride, or even too eager to fall back upon external comforts.
~ Thomas a Kempis
certain man being in anxiety of mind, continually tossed about between hope and fear, and being on a certain day overwhelmed with grief, cast himself down in prayer before the altar in a church, and meditated within himself, saying, "Oh! if I but knew that I should still persevere," and presently heard within him a voice from God, "And if thou didst know it, what wouldst thou do? Do now what thou wouldst do then, and thou shalt be very secure.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Reply to Objection 4: Even if by a special privilege their predestination were revealed to some, it is not fitting that it should be revealed to everyone; because, if so, those who were not predestined would despair; and security would beget negligence in the predestined.
~ Thomas Aquinas
enemy than to suffer his people to be exposed to rapine
~ Thomas Asbridge
My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The first great work that men are to attend in this world is the eternal safety and security of their souls; the next great work is to know, to be assured, that it shall go well with their souls forever.
~ Thomas Brooks
we sat down; not wishing to part in the tumult and blaze of Piccadilly. I had told her again that she should share in my good fortune, if I met with any; and that I would never forsake her, as soon as I had power to protect her.
~ Thomas de Quincey
Trial by jury, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, will be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
~ Thomas Denman (Lord Denman)
No matter what happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping.
~ Frank Knox
Al Qaeda attacked the U.S.S. Cole and bombed several U.S. embassies in East Africa in the late 1990s. We knew who did it, but we didn't go after them. Instead, we beefed up security at our embassies and changed the Navy's rules of engagement. It only served to embolden Al Qaeda.
~ Kathleen Troia McFarland
The United States has the largest and best navy in the world.
~ Robert Zubrin
The United States Navy is of critical importance to the defense of this country and to maintaining freedom of the seas internationally.
~ Robert C. O'Brien
I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me.
~ Peter Lynch
As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my home while, snug and secure, I looked down in wonder at the great carpet of life that seemed so perfect beneath me.
~ Michael Leunig
A porous border is a danger to America's national security, the people who live near it, and to those who cross it.
~ Raja Krishnamoorthi
I'm nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google.
~ Michael Arrington
Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex.
~ Keith Barry
For Nebraska and for America, I will continue my commitment to our national security, economic security, and family security.
~ Jeff Fortenberry
Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
~ Benjamin Tucker
Second, the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security.
~ Jeff Miller
I have got gold secure all the time so income tax people will not be able to take the gold from my neck!
~ Bappi Lahiri
I'd got into the habit of needing that security, love, and acceptance from a guy to make me happy.
~ Emily Atack