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“Where the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no consideration of justice or injustice, humanity or cruelty, nor of glory or of shame, should be allowed to prevail. But putting all other considerations aside, the only question should be: What course will save the life and liberty of the country?”

Should War Country Humanity Courses Peace Justice Freedom Liberty Taken Security Depends Glory Shame Safety Injustice Cruelty Consideration Resolution

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Our sense of safety depends on predictability, so anything living outside the usual rules we suspect to be an outlaw, a ghoul.”

Depends Safety Suspects Usual Outsiders Outlaw Ghouls Predictability

Book:Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales

Source: Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales

“... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!”

Depends Safety Strings Unsafe Aprons

Book:The Awakening of Helena Richie

Source: The Awakening of Helena Richie

“[On 9/11:] ... those towers represented human triumph over nature. Larger than life, built to be unburnable, they were the Titanic of our day. For them to burn and fall so quickly means that the whole superstructure we depend upon to mitigate nature and assure our comfort and safety could fall.”

Humans Mean Whole Fall United States Depends Comfort Built Safety Terrorism Triumph Towers Larger Than Life

Author:Starhawk

“Trade liberty for safety or money and you'll end up with neither. Liberty, like a grain of salt, easily dissolves. The power of questioning - not simply believing - has no friends. Yet liberty depends on it.”

Believe Ends Liberty Depends Safety Trade Salt Questioning Grain No Friends Grain Of Salt

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“As the safety and prosperity of nations ultimately and essentially depend on the protection and the blessing of Almighty God, and the national acknowledgment of this truth is not only an indispensable duty which the people owe to Him.”

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Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Seek first the kingdom of wealth and you'll worry over every dollar. Seek first the kingdom of health and you'll sweat every blemish and bump. Seek first the kingdom of popularity, and you'll relive every conflict. Seek first the kingdom of safety, and you'll jump at every crack of the twig. But seek first His kingdom and you will find it. On that, we can depend and never worry.”

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Book:Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear

Source: Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear

“At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different--in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.”

People Should Humans Doe Different Might Happens Running Teach Depends News Should Have Safety Milk Ancestor Policemen Supermarkets Agility Alertness Crunch Resourcefulness

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“That is the difference we make in the world. And our own safety, our own security, depends upon our willingness to do what it takes to defend this nation and uphold the values that we stand for - timeless ideals that will endure long after those who offer only hate and destruction have been vanquished from the Earth.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“[T]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty - that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.”

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

“Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of all you hold dear depend upon your courage and exertions. Let each man resolve to be victorious, and that the right of self government, liberty and peace shall find him a defender.”

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Author:Robert E. Lee

“But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying no to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.”

Knows World Ideas Expression Depends Integrity Highest Standing Safety Defiance Saying No No Friends Inhumane

Author:Gabrielle Giffords

“Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.”

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Author:Samuel Chase

“Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection, safety and security, just as a child depends on its parent. For self-preservation man has conceived the idea of an immortal Soul or Atman, which will live eternally. In his ignorance, weakness, fear, and desire, man needs these two things to console himself. Hence he clings to them deeply and fanatically.”

“Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beatifying that existence. He endowed him with rational faculties, by the help of which, to discern and pursue such things, as were consistent with his duty and interest, and invested him with an inviolable right to personal liberty, and personal safety.”

Source: The Official and Other Papers of the Late Major-General Alexander Hamilton: Comp. Chiefly from the Originals in the Possession of Mrs. Hamilton ...

“The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family.”

Source: Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder

“Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.”

Book States Imagination Depends Safety Notes Reviews Cultivating Book Review

Book:Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

Source: Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews