Security Quotes

England is safe, if true within itself.

For us to ignore by inaction the slaughter of American civilians and American soldiers, whether in nightclubs or airline terminals, is simply not in the American tradition. Self-defense is not only our right, it is our duty.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.

The biggest threat that we face right now is not a nuclear missile coming over the skies. It's in a suitcase. This is why the issue of nuclear proliferation is so important. It is the - the biggest threat to the United States is a terrorist getting their hands on nuclear weapons.

There is no security in life, only opportunity.

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.

We are on alert 24/7. And everything that you report will be investigated. We do it in private. We do it covertly. This could be a problem, it could simply be your neighbor having a bad day. But better be safe than sorry.

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

Together, we'll build a far better future for America -- a future of growth, opportunity, and security, anchored by the values of a people who are confident, compassionate, and whose heart is good.

The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.

No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. That settles nothing. It only uses up the gains of the past and postpones the developments of the future.

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

As long as I'm president of the United States Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. I made that clear when I came into office.

Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others will keep us permanently secure.

The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for the last four decades did not concentrate on suppressing crime. Their main objective was to suppress, to crush political activity. And in the process, crime grew to unacceptable proportions. And criminals were able to form powerful syndicates, and they virtually took over the control of the life of the community in certain areas.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

For though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper.

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.

We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the chimney-corner, willoften peep till they die, nevertheless; but if you put in a book, or anything heavy, which will press down the cotton, and feel like the hen, they go to sleep directly.

Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.

Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is no unemployment and pauperism, where a person does not tremble because tomorrow he may lose his job, home and bread.

Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They are always in favor of despots who promise to feed them. The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

Without an army for the people, there is nothing for the people.

Before I even came into office, I said that preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon was a priority.

To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things .

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

Don't ask for security, ask for adventure. Better to live 30 years full of adventure than a 100 years safe in the corner.

If you give up your freedom for safety, you don't deserve either one

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

I have complete confidence in Secret Service. These guys and gals are unbelievably professional. They know what they’re doing and I basically do what they tell me to do. Now, sometimes I’m the first one to admit that it chafes a little bit being inside this bubble. It’s the hardest adjustment of being president, not being able to just take a walk.

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

Our freedom is also incomplete, dear compatriots, as long as we are denied our security by criminals who prey on our communities, who rob our businesses and undermine our economy, who ply their destructive trade in drugs in our schools, and who do violence against our women and children.

The insecure way is the secure way.

Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired.

India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment.

There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

The fish cannot leave the deep waters. The state's weaponry should not be displayed.

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

If we are safe today, it is because America has stood with us. If we are to remain safe tomorrow, it will be because America remains powerful and self-confident. When, therefore, the Americans face difficulties, we need to say to them more clearly: We are with you.

A permanent peace cannot be prepared by threats but only by the honest attempt to create a mutual trust. However strong national armaments may be, they do not create military security for any nation nor do they guarantee the maintenance of peace.

Only the insecure strive for security.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

If you can look back and say, "The economy's better. Our security's better. The environment's better. Our kids' education is better," if you can say that you've made things better, then considering all the challenges out there, you should feel good. But I'm the first to acknowledge that I did not crack the code in terms of reducing this partisan fever.

I'm not so much interested in the return ON my money as I am in the return OF my money.

The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization and people can only culminate in the establishment of democracy.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece.

Bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. Weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us...No longer is the quest for disarmament a sign of weakness, (nor) the destruction of arms a dream - it is a practical matter of life or death. The risks inherent in disarmament pale in comparison to the risks inherent in an unlimited arms race.

He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

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.

A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry

Self-respect - The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

Without a People's army, the people have nothing.