Security Quotes

"For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts"

Ronald Reagan, President

"And how the government communicates about homeland security is central to how the public responds"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless"

Willa Cather, Author

"No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person"

Willa Cather, Author

"Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security"

John F. Kennedy, President

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

John F. Kennedy, President

"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands"

Osama bin Laden, Criminal

"To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion"

George Eliot, Author

"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing"

Helen Keller, Author

"I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence"

Adam Smith, Economist

"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"While the debate on the Patriot Act is far from over, it is important that all Americans continue in this dialogue and work together to ensure greater security for our nation"

Jo Bonner, Politician

"I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security"

Jim Garrison, Public Servant

"One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't"

Lyn Nofziger

"I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives"

Lyn Nofziger

"What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders"

Joe Baca, Politician

"The ultimate security is your understanding of reality"

H. Stanley Judd, Author

"My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me"

Kim Novak, Actress

"It's true that the war in Iraq opened a distance in relations between part of Europe and the U.S. government, but our basic ties are stronger than that. We share democracy, free markets and a commitment to Western security. We differ on how to guarantee that security"

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Politician

"We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"First, we must stop issuing drivers' licenses to people in our country illegally. Providing them with forms of government identification makes a mockery of our laws and undermines national security efforts"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

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