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“Globalization makes our economy, our health, and our security all captive to events on the other side of the world. And no other nation on earth has a greater capacity to shape that global system, or to build consensus around a new set of international rules that expand the zones of freedom, personal safety, and economic well-being. Like it or not, if we want to make America more secure, we are going to have to help make the world more secure.”

Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“Faith is the backbone of the social and the foundation of the commercial fabric; remove faith between man and man, and society and commerce fall to pieces. There is not a happy home on earth but stands on faith; our heads are pillowed on it, we sleep at night in its arms with greater security for the safety of our lives, peace, and prosperity than bolts and bars can give.”

Men Giving Home Earth Night Faith Fall Social Sleep Greater Pieces Our Lives Security Arms Safety Foundation Prosperity Bars Remove Commerce Fabric Bolts Backbone Happy Home

Author:Thomas Guthrie

“Whatever may be the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to that safety arising from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. That is the faith, the experimental faith, by which we Americans have undertaken to live.”

May Political Loss Greater Wise Atheism Danger Gains Safety Foolish Suppression Political Freedom Gains And Losses

Author:Alexander Meiklejohn

“At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.”

People Want Needs Greater Economic Taxes Tough Raises Safety Bills Tough Times Recessions Safety Net Medicaid Economic Recession

Author:James Douglas, Lord of Douglas

“Let others seek safety. Nothing is safer than misfortune, Where there's no fear of greater ill to come.”

Greater Safety Ill Misfortunes No Fear

Author:Ovid

“The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.”

Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

“The very voices of the night, sounding like the moan of the tempest, may turn out to be the disguised yet tender voices of God, calling away from all earthly footsteps, to mount with greater singleness of eye and ardor of aim the alone ladder of safety and peace - upward, onward, heavenward, homeward.”

May Eye Night Turns Voice Nature Greater Calling Aim Safety Ladders Footsteps Tempest Voice Of God Singleness Ardor

Author:John Ross Macduff

“The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare and safety of the State, the greater is the security of the State.”

Men Giving States Interest Greater Security Safety Welfare

Book:In the Words of Frederick Douglass: Quotations from Liberty’s Champion

Source: In the Words of Frederick Douglass: Quotations from Liberty’s Champion

“For if many ill-conceived plans have succeeded through the still greater lack of judgment of an opponent, many more, apparently well laid, have on the contrary ended in disgrace. The confidence with which we form our schemes is never completely justified in their execution; speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.”

Ifs Wells Stills Action Form Causes Greater Plans Judgment Safety Ill Contrary Opponents Execution Schemes Justified Speculation Disgrace

Book:The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War

Source: The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War

“An investor who proposes to ignore near-term market fluctuations needs greater resources for safety and must not operate on so large a scale, if at all, with borrowed money.”

Ifs Needs Term Greater Resources Safety Scales Investors Propose Borrowed Fluctuation Borrowed Money

Book:General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money