Security Quotes

"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

"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 society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system"

Norm Coleman, Politician

"Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military"

Duncan Hunter, Politician

"I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an American president and allies who are obligated to worry about the safety and security of our countries, cannot take the word of this dictator, who lies, pathologically lies"

Condoleezza Rice, Statesman

"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

"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

"Growth demands a temporary surrender of security"

Gail Sheehy, Writer

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

Ronald Reagan, President

"Wildlife trafficking is not just an animal welfare issue. It is a global security threat, an environmental threat, and a threat to our health and well-being"

Peter Knights, Activist

"The illegal wildlife trade is a multibillion-dollar criminal enterprise that fuels corruption, undermines the rule of law, and threatens global security"

Peter Knights, Activist

"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

"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

"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

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

Thomas Paine, Writer

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

Patrick J. Kennedy, 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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Osama bin Laden, Criminal

"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

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

George Eliot, Author

"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

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

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"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

"The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"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

"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

"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls"

Epicurus, Philosopher

"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

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

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

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