#Security Quotes

“The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.”

“Security is the chief enemy of mortals.”

“England is safe, if true within itself.”

“Tis better using France than trusting France;Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas,Which He hath given for fence impregnable,And with their helps only defend ourselves;In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies.”

“Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.”

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

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

“Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.”

“Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked?”

“How can tyrants safely govern home,Unless abroad they purchase great alliance.”

“People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.”

“Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.”

“Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.”

“The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep he waters pure.”

“Only the insecure strive for security.”

“There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.”

“One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman.”

“Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.”

“May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.”

“The world must be made safe for democracy.”

“It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned about; it's the return of my investment”

“Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.”

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

“Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family.”

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

“A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry”

“All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.”

“The only real security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way.”

“Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.”

“The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither.”

“The only security of all is in a free press.”

“The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.”

“Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace”

“Most individuals work much harder to hang on to what they have than to take the necessary risk to shoot for their dreams.”

“Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.”

“Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.”

“I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don't have to worry about anything ever again.”

“The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside ... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them ... the weak will become prey to the strong.”

“The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine.”

“Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.”

“Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security.”

“The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.”

“It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.”

“The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.”

“The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, requirethat force should be interposed to a certain degree.”

“Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured”

“Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.”

“One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.”

“We intend to keep the peace - we will also keep our freedom.”

“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.”