Security Quotes

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security. (Benjamin Franklin)
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life. View quote
Germaine Greer
We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters. View quote
Stephen Harper
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. View quote
William Congreve
We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
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. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins. View quote
Robert Mugabe
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
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! View quote
William Hazlitt
There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. (Douglas MacArthur)
When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people. View quote
Vivien Leigh
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security. View quote
Edmund Burke
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. View quote
Henry Miller
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus'd among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security. View quote
Samuel Adams
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. View quote
Willa Cather
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Distrust and caution are the parents of security. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
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. View quote
Helen Keller
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. View quote
James Russell Lowell
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft. View quote
James Russell Lowell
The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples. View quote
Henry Kissinger
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. View quote
Barack Obama