Security Quotes: Wise Words on Protection and Safety

"Distrust and caution are the parents of security"

"Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security"

"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded"

Barack Obama, President

"In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

"We have an illusion of security, we don't have security"

Isaac Yeffet

"I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare"

John Dingell, Politician

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it"

John Steinbeck, Author

"The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time"

Bruce Schneier, Scientist

"Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward"

Maxwell Maltz, Scientist

"Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't"

Lennart Meri, Statesman

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

John F. Kennedy, President

"I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within"

Douglas MacArthur, Soldier

"The ultimate security is your understanding of reality"

H. Stanley Judd, Author

"The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population"

Moshe Sharett, Statesman

"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

"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing"

William Congreve, Poet

"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities"

John Acton, Historian

"Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe"

Anne Wilson Schaef

"One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI)"

Frank Gaffney, Writer

"Owning a home is a keystone of wealth... both financial affluence and emotional security"

Suze Orman, Author

"Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward"

Bill Shuster, Politician

"Now, China, India have set goals. We're going to be able to review what they're doing. We're going to be able to challenge them if they don't meet those goals. We're going to pursue this anyway, because the President understands that our future lies with a clean energy economy. We've doubled renewables this year. There are millions of jobs to be had there, more energy security, so we're going to pursue this"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers"

William J. H. Boetcker, Clergyman

"We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property"

Malcolm Wallop, Politician

"Intelligence is our first line of defense against terrorism, and we must improve the collection capabilities and analysis of intelligence to protect the security of the United States and its allies"

Saxby Chambliss, Politician

"The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism"

Mitch McConnell, Politician

"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

"As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic"

Barack Obama, President

"Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release"

Germaine Greer, Activist

"Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important"

Russ Carnahan, Politician

"And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women"

Louise Slaughter, Politician

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