Quotes About Security

The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

As strong as the United States is, we can't deal with terrorism alone.

For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it's not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.

Soon enough, the government that silences a media outlet finds muffling a second easier. The parliament that outlaws one political party has a precedent for banning the next. The majority that strips a particular minority of its rights doesn't stop there. The security force that beats protestors and gets away with it doesn't hesitate before doing so again.

We complain bitterly when we do not get all we want as if it were possible to have more services with lower taxes, broader health care coverage with no federal involvement, a cleaner environment without regulations, security from terrorists with no infringement on privacy, and cheaper consumer goods made locally by workers with higher wages.

Modern dictators tend to weary of their citizens, which is why they create royal guards and other elite security units to ensure their personal safety. A fascist, however, expects the crowd to have his back. Where kings try settle people down, fascists stir them up so that when the fighting begins their foot soldiers have the will and fighting power to strike first.

My fears forgotten in the golden harbour of his arms.

I have no stomach for surprises. I have endured too many of them. They upset me. The elimination of all removable risk is the most plausible way of staying alive.

I don't like it anymore around here, Meyer. I want to go home. Every time I get blown up by a bomb I get that same feeling. I want to go home.

For this he created a new intelligence force, answerable only to him: the Directorate of National Intelligence (DINA).

We are not inviting—we are guarded. Most of our energy is spent trying to hide our true selves, and control our worlds to have some sense of security.

We would like to picture goodness as being synonymous with safety.

If strangers and strange sights can shake the world of children, it takes the people they know and love best to pull it out from under them like a chair.

Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. —KING SOLOMON (PROV. 4:23)

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together. In too many of our cities today, the peace is not secure because freedom is incomplete. (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)

We, in this country, in this generation, are - by destiny rather than by choice - the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough—more than enough—of war and hate and oppression. We shall be prepared if others wish it. We shall be alert to try to stop it. But we shall do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success.

If we fail to meet the challenge of either Soviet or Western imperialism, then no amount of foreign aid, no aggrandizement of armaments, no new pacts or doctrines or high-level conferences can prevent further setbacks to our course and to our security.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

All would be well when she was truly his; in his bed and in his bank ... and of course in his heart, too.

Today, nearly everyone is much better off. Yet the rackety existence of the majority is as far removed from the security enjoyed by the truly wealthy as it was in Victorian times.(...) The wealthy can pass their lives without contact with the rest of society. So long as they do not pose a threat to the reach, the poor can be left to their own devices. Social democracy has been replaced by the oligarchy of the rich as part of the price of peace.

the Germans, complacently sure it was uncrackable, were careless in its use.