#Safety Quotes

“Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.”

“Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.”

“'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.”

“Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.”

“Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.”

“Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die."”

“To be direct and honest is not safe.”

“There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.”

“If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.”

“To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.”

“Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.”

“The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.”

“I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.”

“It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter”

“I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.”

“Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air? Could it be, even for elderly people, that this was life?--startling, unexpected, unknown?”

“Where I come from, they won't let me play with this rope. They think I might hurt myself.”

“Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.”

“The US is safest when Congress is in recess.”

“Spinnin' a rope is fun if your neck ain't in it”

“That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain.”

“The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety.”

“When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.”

“I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.”

“The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.”

“Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.”

“Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.”

“There is always safety in valor.”

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe.”

“In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.”

“Pedestrians never seem to realize that they are a threat to the safety of cars.”

“When an instrument admits two constructions, the one safe, the other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe and precise.”

“Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.”

“Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control.”

“They say you're not supposed to put metal in a microwave oven. They're right.”

“I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.”

“Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.”

“It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.”

“My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.”

“Never take candy from strangers.”

“I don't think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.”

“There's no better policy in a society then pursuing a health and safety of its people.”

“The roles we play in each other's lives are only as powerful as the trust and connection between us--the protection, safety, and caring we are willing to share.”

“If you know what's going on and know how society can be improved and happiness advanced, you tend to focus on how to get things done that will help health, safety, opportunity, justice, accountability of powerful institutions to the people they are supposed to serve.”

“I like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them.”

“Not everything," he said. "Not the important things. My kids are safe. You're safe. That's all I really care about. This" - he said motioning - "is just stuff. Most of it can be replaced. It just takes time.”

“I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.”

“It can be said that there are four basic and primary things that the mass of people in a society wish for: to live in a safe environment, to be able to work and provide for themselves, to have access to good public health and to have sound educational opportunities for their children.”

“Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.”

“We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.”