Security Quotes - page 2

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)
Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force ... is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure. View quote
Karl Popper
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. View quote
John F. Kennedy
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. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. View quote
James Madison
Never surrender opportunity for security. View quote
Branch Rickey
We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others to rely on them for security - and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use. View quote
Mohamed ElBaradei
Security is a kind of death. (Tennessee Williams)
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
...they want the federal government controlling Social Security, like it's some kind of federal program. View quote
George W. Bush
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. View quote
Kim Novak
Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
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. View quote
Willa Cather
Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture. View quote
Jane Jacobs
Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. View quote
Joseph Wood Krutch
Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty-and, by which definition, a philosopher-dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security. View quote
Tom Stoppard
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break. (Robert Anton Wilson)
The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put the interests of his political party ahead of America's security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep America safe. View quote
Howard Dean
Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial in praise of loyalty testing and thought control. If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going. View quote
E. B. White
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. View quote
William F. Buckley
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire. View quote
Brian Tracy