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“I think people are losing that sense of security pretty fast, frankly.”

“People talk so much to me about the beauty of confidence. They seem to entirely ignore the much more subtle beauty of doubt. To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. The Apostle Thomas was artistic up to a certain point. He appreciated the value of shadows in a picture. To be on the alert is to live. To be lulled into security is to die.”

People Believe Seems Certain Values Dies Doubt Security Shadow Artistic Dull Subtle Appreciated Apostles

Author:Robert Smythe Hichens

“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

“Let me tell you girls the three most important things I learned about life: Number one: Hold fast to your friends; number two: There's no such thing as security; and number three: Don't go see 'Ishtar.'”

Two Important Girl Three Numbers Security Let Me Important Things Hold Fast Number Three Golden Girls

Author:Estelle Getty

“There is no security as undemanding and comfortable as the kind you feel among friends.”

Feels Kind Security Comfortable

Author:Peter Bodo

“The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand most in need of justice. The security of the republic will be found in the treatment of the poor and the ignorant. In indifference to their misery and helplessness lies disaster.”

Needs Looks Care Lying Found Justice Poor Security Court Misery Take Care Disaster Supreme Ignorant Appeals Indifference Treatment Republic Supreme Court Helplessness

Author:Charles Evans Hughes

“Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security.”

Giving Firsts Done Jobs Security First Time Fourteen Get The Job Done Inspirational Office

Author:Stephen Hawking

“A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography”

People World Security Colleagues Security Systems Cryptography

Book:Secrets and lies: digital security in a networked world

Source: Secrets and lies: digital security in a networked world

“Worldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world”

World Effort Security Serious Blanket Worldview

Book:The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

Source: The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

“The events of September 11 would have been impossible if there were no airport security system at all. If average Americans were allowed to carry their personal firearms on board our aircraft ..., the chances that several passengers on each flight would have been armed-and thus able to shoot the hijackers, preventing the Trade Center and Pentagon hits-would have been quite substantial.”

“The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.”

Source: The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays

“Ultimately, the best strategy to ensure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere. Democracies don't attack each other.”

Support Democracy Security Strategy Elsewhere

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1994

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1994

“How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.”

Want Long Social Waiting Enjoy Five Security Sixty Enjoy Life Social Security

Book:The comedy of Neil Simon

Source: The comedy of Neil Simon

“My time in the Army gave me an understanding for what it takes to provide for our national security and what it means to our service members and their families.”

Mean Understanding Security Members Army My Time National Security

Author:James Inhofe

“Remember, it is the president's constitutional duty to provide a strong national defense. Don't insert politics into national security. Listen to your ground commanders. They know better than anyone what our military's needs are. Have somebody strong at home who can provide you with needed support 'off the battle field.'”

Knows Needs Home Remember Strong President Support Security Military Fields Duty Needed Battle Defense National Security Commanders Insert National Defense

Author:Ryan Zinke

“Do not compromise on national security for purely budgetary reasons. The world is dangerous, and we must always be prepared for anything that might threaten our national interests and security.”

World Reason Might Interest Security Dangerous Prepared Compromise Be Prepared National Security National Interests

Author:Sanford Bishop

“Russia's increased Arctic presence. The Arctic has vast natural resources and security value, and Russia is drastically increasing its footprint in the region.”

Values Natural Security Resources Russia Regions Natural Resources Footprint Arctic

Author:Don Young

“Islamic terrorists are the greatest security threats to the United States, both domestically and abroad. We need to be vigilant every day. Now, every citizen has to be vigilant because they are vital links in the national security chain.”

Needs States United United States Security Citizens Threat Terrorist Chains Islamic Links National Security Vigilant

Author:Ralph Abraham

“I think we're in a new era where the advancing tide is towards human unity, where people all around the world want to come together. The United States is in a position where it can lead the way towards that and it can do it in practical ways by affirming the power of the United Nations so that the international process makes decisions on international security.”

“Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so that instead of discussing the public interest, we are discussing the interests of individual software developers, while claiming that this is a discussion about "innovation" and "progress," not "accountability" or "security."”

“These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure foods and safe drugs, Social Security, Medicare and rules that promote competitive markets over monopolies and cartels.”

“When the day comes, I remember how much I loathe flying. I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.”

Security Checks Humiliation Airports Airport Security

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“The psychological origins of love are in attachment to parents and sexual partners. We do not attach to ourselves; we do not seek security and fulfillment in ourselves.”

Parent Security Partners Psychological Fulfillment Attachment

Book:The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“If you don't try to generate more revenues through tax reform, if you don't ask, you know, the most fortunate Americans to bear a slightly larger burden of the privilege of being an American, then you have to - the only way to achieve fiscal sustainability is through unacceptably deep cuts in benefits for middle class seniors, or unacceptably deep cuts in national security.”

“[A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and is far in excess of what is needed to provide us with the security and protections we all want.”

Want Liberty Principles Security Needed Expectations Protection Privacy Excess Identification Personal Liberty

Author:Bill McCollum

“[In the event of war, Americans would] resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe they, at length, become willing to run the risk of being less free.”

War Running Political Rights Risk Security Events Willing Safe Institutions Tendencies Length Resorts Repose Political Rights Security And Liberty

Book:The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government

Source: The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government

“When we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security.”

Needs Faces Choices Issues Security Features

Author:Bill Gates

“We must also reject the false choice of liberty versus security. We can and must have both.”

Choices Liberty Security Rejects Versus

Author:Tom Ridge

“When I was young I had a security blanket and a pet dog. The dog got sick and died and the blanket had to be burned, so I guess I was trying to recreate the image of security in the bunny. It was a Citizen Kane/Rosebud thing.”

Trying Young Security Dog Citizens Sick Died Pet Burned Blanket Bunnies Pet Dog Rosebuds Citizen Kane

Author:Hugh Hefner

“I played a security guard, and I think it was in the State Department. This was my first acting role, really, and I remember rehearsing it on the couch with my girlfriend at the time. I had a real problem with saying the word "incendiary." Most of my rehearsal was spent on pronouncing the word "incendiary."”

Thinking Firsts Real States Problem Remember Acting Roles Security Girlfriend Department Rehearsal Couches My Girlfriend Real Problems Rehearsing Security Guards

Author:Kevin Nealon

“The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual and novel court make for this ever-expanding surveillance state. We so treasure our freedoms; we will regret it if our generation doesn't use this unique time to reform the surveillance laws and make it clear that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.”

“In America, much foreign policy seems contrived to be an exercise in political theory with no attention to history whatsoever. Yet there's a great reverence for history - though it's history as thumb-sucking, security blanket-nibbling self-congratulation.”

Self Seems America Political Attention Security Policy Theory Exercise Reverence Foreign Policy Congratulations Thumbs Blanket Political Theory Nibbling

Author:Simon Schama

“I started feeling secure in every way once I began to accept myself the way I was. Whether that was emotional, financial or professional security, all of it came and embraced me because I embraced myself.”

Way Feelings Accepting Security Emotional Financial Secure

Author:Vidya Balan

“Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order for him to have this liberty the government must be such that one citizen cannot fear another citizen.”

Government Political Spirit Order Liberty Opinion Security Citizens Tranquillity

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.”

Social Security Policy Mess Progressive Social Security

Author:Jim DeMint

“With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States.”

States Differences United United States Security Republican Threat Democrat Fifty

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Securities, certitudes and peace do not lead to discoveries.”

Security Discovery Certitude

Book:The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East

Source: The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East

“Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security.”

May Soul Religious Security Useless Deceiving Snares

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security.”

World Force Love Is Creative Mankind Security Instruments Available Quests Peace And Security

Book:A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“A long time ago, when I was married, in the beginning it was bliss. I eloped after one month, and I married for security. I thought, 'I finally met a man who loves God and comes from a great family. I'm working, I love God, and I'm out here in California by myself, and I've met this great man.' So, I said yes. And we eloped.”

Men Long Said Security Months Mets Married Long Time God Love California Bliss Great Men Long Time Ago Great Family I Love God

Author:Tichina Arnold

“The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and the mosque. Within those walls and along those stacks, I have found security and assurance.”

Littles Found Church Views Security Building Wall Library Temples Assurance Cathedrals Mosques Public Library Synagogue

Author:Maya Angelou

“Carli Fiorina thinks the answer for Social Security and Medicare is...zero-based budgeting! Christ. People of a certain age are all banging their heads on the table right now.”

People Thinking Age Certain Social Christ Answers Security Right Now Tables Zero Social Security Medicare Banging Budgeting

Author:Ted Cruz

“The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.”

Way Age Social Security Raises Retirement Social Security Retirement Age

Author:Rand Paul

“The difficulty is the levels of secrecy we had to maintain around the project at all different times. We had to keep it a secret while making it so we could move under the radar so we could get the stories. Before it came out we had to keep it on lock down to protect the safety and security of some people who appear in the film.”

People Different Stories Film Moving Levels Secret Security Protect Projects Difficulty Safety Locks Secrecy Radar Different Times Safety And Security

Author:Amy Ziering

“In current society, your security is cash, and that has huge repercussions. But when you take that out of the equation, you have to have relationships with people and you have to have relationships with the environment to survive.”

People Environment Security Huge Currents Cash Equations Repercussions

Author:Mark Boyle

“An attitudinal sea change. I think that's the hardest one to fix. Presidential directives, bills, provisions can all be rescinded, repealed, amended, but attitudes linger. The hardest thing is going to be to try to reverse an attitude, a bunker mentality that equates secrecy with either security or heightened efficiency and that regards transparency as an invitation to mischief and trespass. This default position of operating in the shadows is going to be somewhat appealing to whomever inherits office.”

“Another factor is the post-9/11 security mentality, which views sunlight as toxic and imagines that somehow bin Laden is dependent upon our government documents, a "fact" that has never, ever been supported to my knowledge. So, that's the second factor.”

Facts Government Views Imagine Security Factors Posts Dependent Toxic Mentality Imagine That Sunlight Documents Bin Laden

Author:Ted Gup

“The real secrets start leaking out when there are too many secrets because people can't remember what's a real secret. There's a very famous line by National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy: "If you guard your toothbrushes and your diamonds with equal zeal, you'll lose fewer toothbrushes and more diamonds." And that's where we are right now.”

People Ifs Real Remember Loses Lines Secret Security Right Now Equal Fewer Diamond National Security Zeal Advisors Very Famous Toothbrushes

Author:Ted Gup

“With 1 million square miles of the Arctic melting unexpectedly this summer, these are warning signs that we have to act and act now. Our addiction to Middle Eastern oil obviously has security implications, and we think it's about time to be generating Eastern Washington wind energy instead of sending our money to the sheikhs.”

Thinking Energy Millions Middle Security Wind Summer Addiction Oil Miles Squares Warning Eastern Implications Melting Arctic Warning Signs Wind Energy

Author:Jay Inslee

“I can't tell you how many times I've been with very smart, knowledgeable Homeland Security experts who are essentially tasked with saving your life who do not trust you with information. They just don't. They kind of dismiss the media and the public in one fell swoop.”

Kind I Can Security Media Information Smart Saving Experts Homeland Knowledgeable Very Smart Homeland Security Saving Your Life

Author:Amanda Ripley

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