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“A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.”

Spirit Certain Animal Enemy Safety Ill Strikes Spite Excess Caution Deliberate Good Humor Animal Spirits

Author:William Hazlitt

“The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited.... There is no rightto strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.”

Police Safety Strikes Granted Boston Public Safety

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“To suppose that safety-first consists in having a small gamble in a large number of different companies where I have no information to reach a good judgment, as compared with a substantial stake in a company where one's information is adequate, strikes me as a travesty of investment policy.”

“My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney? When the lightning strikes shadows on the bedroom wall and the rain taps at the window with its long fingernails? No. When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.”

Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

“There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.”

Time Safety Strikes Public Safety

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes — the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things — there is nothing to fall back on.”

People World War Jobs Fall Loses Economy Conflict Percent Safety Strikes Disaster Flood Governance Eighty Fall Back Safety Net Food Safety

Author:Josette Sheeran

“And while the U.S. can never be 100 percent safe from a future strike, our government is working around the clock on measures to protect the American people.”

People Government Protect Safe Percent Safety Strikes Clock

Author:Roger Wicker

“How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it was the pain of nothingness. My fear was of the weather, the atmosphere, the very air. What good did safety tips do me now? 'Avoid water, metal objects, rooftops; stay off the telephone in a storm, don't think glass can protect you; even if a storm was 8 miles away, you're still not safe from a strike. Avoid life perhaps that was the answer. The number one safety tip, stay away from it all.”

“That the government's power under the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike by injunction so clearly strengthens the hand of the employer-even though it is used only when a strike threatens the national health, welfare, or safety-is a grave blemish and explains much of union resistance to the Act.”

Hands Government Used Safety Unions Strikes Graves Resistance Welfare Employers Taft

Book:The New Society: The Anatomy of Industrial Order

Source: The New Society: The Anatomy of Industrial Order

“When we walk the streets at night in safety, it does not strike us that this might be otherwise. This habit of feeling safe has become second nature, and we do not reflect on just how this is due solely to the working of special institutions. Commonplace thinking often has the impression that force holds the state together, but in fact its only bond is the fundamental sense of order which everybody possesses.”

Source: Hegel's Philosophy of right