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“Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.”

Art Lying Dies Sleep Common Security Wit Ease Buried Careless Sloth Moths

Book:Ben Jonson

Source: Ben Jonson

“The same technology transforming our lives can solve the greatest problem of the 20th century. A security shield can one day render nuclear weapons obsolete and free mankind from the prison of nuclear terror. America met one historic challenge and went to the Moon. Now America must meet another: to make our strategic defense real for all the citizens of planet Earth.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986

“A strong American economy is essential to the well-being and security of our friends and allies.”

Wells Strong Economy Security Essentials Well Being Allies American Economy

Book:Ronald Reagan

Source: Ronald Reagan

“In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects. The degree of security in both cases, will depend on the number of interests and sects; and this may be presumed to depend on the extent of country and number of People comprehended under the same Government.”

People May Country Government Interest Religious Numbers Cases Rights Security Depends Degrees Civil Rights Sects Multiplicity Free Government Religious Rights

Book:The Federalist

Source: The Federalist

“The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.”

War Security Defense Preparation

Book:John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“Military power serves the cause of security by making prohibitive the cost of any aggressive attack. It serves the cause of peace by holding up a shield behind which the patient constructive work of peace can go on.”

Causes Peace Behinds Security Military Goes On Cost Patient Aggressive Constructive Shields Military Power

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those who can least protect themselves. It strikes hardest those millions of our citizens whose incomes do not quickly rise with the cost of living. When prices soar, the pensioner and the widow see their security undermined, the man of thrift sees his savings melt away; the white collar worker, the minister, and the teacher see their standards of living dragged down.”

“If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.”

Ifs Political Used Social Groups Minutes Security Solve Rhetoric Social Security Pleasantries Political Rhetoric

Author:Alan Greenspan

“I live in a small apartment in London, not some big house with a lot of security. I don't like too much security. There's no freedom. I'm a person, not some precious diamond that needs guarding every second.”

Needs Persons Bigs House Too Much Security London Diamond Apartment Every Second Guarding Big Houses

Author:Julian Lennon

“It is admitted that all men have an equal right to the enjoyment of their life, property and personal security; and it is the duty as it is the object, of government to protect every man in this enjoyment.”

Men Government Security Objects Duty Protect Equal Property Every Man Enjoyment Personal Security

Author:Noah Webster

“Through the repeated hammer blows of defeat, destruction, and deportation, interpreted by the faithful prophets, Israel has to learn that election is not for comfort and security but for suffering and humiliation.”

Suffering Security Comfort Destruction Election Defeat Blow Israel Faithful Prophet Humiliation Hammers Deportation

Book:The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission

Source: The Open Secret: An Introduction to the Theology of Mission

“We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security.”

Needs Security Weapons Spending National Security Spending Money

Author:Lawrence Korb

“The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion.”

Ideas States Achieve Security Military Illusion Technique Armament

Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“Many people say, "When I get a million dollars, then I'll be happy because I'll have security," but that's not necessarily so. Most people who acquire a million dollars want another and then another. Or they could be like a good friend of mine who made and lost every dime of a million dollars. It didn't bother him a bit. He wasn't excited about it, but he explained to me, "Zig, I still know everything necessary to make another million dollars, and I've learned what to do not to lost it. I'll simply go back to work and earn it again.”

People Knows Want Made Stills Lost Bits Millions Security Mines Dollars Excited Bother I've Learned Acquire Good Friend Million Dollars Dimes Back To Work

Author:Zig Ziglar

“Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle. Modern methods of production have given us the possibility of ease and security for all; we have chosen, instead, to have overwork for some and starvation for the others. Hitherto we have continued to be as energetic as we were before there were machines; in this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever.”

Source: In Praise of Idleness

“How easy it is for men to be swollen with admiration of their own strength and glory, and to be lifted up so high as to lose sight both of the ground whence they rose, and the hand that advanced them.”

Men Hands Easy Loses Security Glory Sight Rose Admiration Swollen

Author:Joseph Hall

“The most dangerous enemy to Israel's security is the intellectual inertia of those who are responsible for security.”

Enemy Security Dangerous Intellectual Responsible Israel Inertia

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“Thoughts and pictures come to my mind... thoughts from before the year 1914 when there was real peace, quiet and security on this earth - a time when we didn't know fear... Security and quiet have disappeared from the lives of men since 1914.”

Knows Men Years Mind Real Earth Security Quiet Mind Thoughts

Author:Konrad Adenauer

“Security here in New York City is still very tight. Hookers in Times Square now are demanding two forms of fake ID.”

Stills Two Form Cities Security New York Fake New York City Squares Times Square

Author:David Letterman

“They're doing everything they can to tighten security at the White House. Today, on the roof of the White House, they added one of those fake owls.”

Today House White Security Fake White House Roof Owl

Author:David Letterman

“The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality.”

Source: The Pentagon of Power

“Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.”

Ifs Mean Country Lines Half Security Ignorance Republican Army Vices Civilized Navy Defence Arsenal Legion Breach Forts Army Navy Fortification

Book:Common School Journal

Source: Common School Journal

“concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.”

Ends Self Chance Greater Security Avoided Adversaries Reproach Concessions

Book:The Landmark Thucydides

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.”

“Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.”

Two States Together Moving Sides President Violence Security Ambition Israel Ministers Prime Occupation Prime Minister Palestine Peace And Security Palestine And Israel

Author:Abdallah II

“And with respect to the mode in which these general principles affect the secure possession of property, so far am I from invalidating such security, that the whole gist of these papers will be found ultimately to aim at an extension in its range; and whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.”

Long Whole Found Wish Poor Known Principles Rich Security Paper Aim Property Possession Secure Range Extensions Papers Gist

Author:John Ruskin

“There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.”

“Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously I lost track of what I was taught.”

Lost Causes Teach Security Taught Buddhism Track Following Unhappy Impulse Restraint Craving Pointless

Author:Tiger Woods

“The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve with equal care the independence of labour and the security of property; to make the rich safe against envy, and the poor against oppression, marks the highest level attained by the statesmanship of Greece.”

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“Well, Rush, look what happened? 9/11 happened, and we didn't know it in advance. That's right, we got hit, we got hit big time. We need a new agency to make sure it doesn't happen again, Rush." And that was the excuse for starting Department of Homeland Security. The government grows and grows and grows and grows, and what do we get? Little old ladies wanded, scanned for bombs and weapons under their skirts next to the incontinence diapers. A bunch safer.”

“Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.”

Giving Can Do Security Illusion Safety Going Away Safety And Security

Author:Will Smith

“The Pentagon needs precious resources to build the strength of America, and we can't say, 'this is really important to this community, and it's really not vital to the national security, but we ought to do it anyway.' So, I think we have to have a discipline on this”

Thinking Needs Important America Community Security Ought Discipline Resources National Security Pentagon

Author:John Kasich

“Through the history of art we can see through the emotional life, and sometimes the financial security of some of the artists, some transformation. And I really believe that it's generally about the same kind of transformation and the same kind of reaction. We are a little bit less individual than we would like to believe or guess we are.”

Believe Kind Littles Art Sometimes Artist Individual Bits Security Emotional Little Bit Transformation Financial Individuality Reactions Emotional Life Financial Security

Author:Arman

“You can give your Social Security check to any organization, public or private, or to individuals. You can donate it to your favorite political party. You can give the funds to a student scholarship - for your grandchildren, for example - or to somebody who has a medical need. Or you can invest your government check in free enterprise.”

“At 2:26 AM on 3 June 1980, Colonel William Odom of the Strategic Air Command alerted National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski that the US nuclear warning system had detected an imminent 220-missile nuclear attack on the US. Shortly thereafter, the automated system revised its projection from 220 missiles to an all-out attack of 2200 missiles. Just before Brzezinski was about to wake up President Carter to authorize a counterattack, he was told that the 'attack' was an illusion caused by 'a computer error in the system'.”

“There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.”

Men Able Work Business Risk Security Willing Hundred Fortune Seeking I Hate Work Work Sucks

Author:J. Paul Getty

“China's limited military power is for the sake of preserving national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.”

Security Military Integrity Sake China Sovereignty Territorial Military Power National Sovereignty

Author:Li Zhaoxing

“The more complex our security becomes, the more complex our enemy's efforts must be.The more we seek to shut him out, the better he must learn to become at breaking in.Each new level of security that we manage becomes no more than a stepping-stone for him who would surpass us, for he bases his next assault upon our best defenses.It is a ware that can never truly be won… but one we dare not lose.”

Next Loses Levels Effort Enemy Security Stones Bases Complexes Dare Defense Manage Assault Stepping Stones

Book:This Alien Shore

Source: This Alien Shore

“The dullness of certain people is sometimes a sufficient security against the attack of an artful man.”

People Men Sometimes Certain Security Sufficient Dullness

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.”

People May Mean Persons Two Ends Grows Moral Security Expression Pride Goes On Habit Taste Noble Love Each Other

Book:The Best of Willa Cather

Source: The Best of Willa Cather

“Man, the more he gains freedom in the sense of emerging from the original oneness with man and nature and the more he becomes an "individual," has no choice but to unite himself with the world in the spontaneity of love and productive work or else to seek a kind of security by such ties with the world as destroy his freedom and the integrity of his individual self.”

Men World Kind Self Choices Individual Security Integrity Gains Originals Oneness Ties Productive Emerging Spontaneity Man And Nature Productive Work

Book:Escape from Freedom

Source: Escape from Freedom

“Gas stations are considering hiring security guards. Why are they getting security guards? We're the ones getting robbed.”

Security Gas Stations Considering Hiring Gas Stations Security Guards

Author:Jay Leno

“Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.”

Government Happiness Form Law Imagination Liberty Mankind Security Property Contrary Republic Forms Of Government Phantoms Secured Deluded Republicanism

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

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

“The art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated; ... it demands much previous study; and ... the possession of it, in its most improved and perfect state, is always a great moment to the security of a nation. This, therefore, ought to be a serious care of every government; and for this purpose, an academy, where a regular course of instruction is given, is an obvious expedient, which different nations have successfully employed.”

Source: The speeches, addresses and messages, of the several presidents of the United States, at the openings of Congress and at their respective inaugurations: Also, the Declaration of independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's farewell address to his fellow-citizens

“If the minority, and a small one too, is suffered to dictate to the majority, after measures have undergone the most solemn discussions by the representatives of the people, and their will through this medium is enacted into a law, there can be no security for life, liberty, or property; nor, if the laws are not to govern, can any man know how to conduct himself in safety.”

People Ifs Knows Men Law Liberty Know How Security Safety Majority Property Mediums Discussion Minorities Representatives Solemn

Book:The Writings of George Washington: pt. IV. Letters official and private, from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life: (v. 10) May, 1789-November, 1794. (v. 11) November, 1794-December, 1799

Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. IV. Letters official and private, from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life: (v. 10) May, 1789-November, 1794. (v. 11) November, 1794-December, 1799

“Sustenance for the infant and child is more than alimentary nourishment. The child needs love, security, narcissistic supplies -- however one may describe it.”

Needs May Children Security Infant Narcissistic Nourishment Supplies Sustenance Need Love

Book:The Language of the Body

Source: The Language of the Body

“To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.”

Made Enjoy Security Devil Bargains

Book:Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life

Source: Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life

“If Saddam Hussein is unwilling to bend to the international community's already existing order, then he will have invited enforcement, even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act.”

Ifs States Hands Order Community United United States Failing Security International Enforcement Saddam Invited Council Hussein Unwilling International Community Security Council

Author:John F. Kerry

“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

“I don't believe that the American people want us to focus on our job security. They want us to focus on their job security. I don't think they want more gridlock. I don't think they want more partisanship. I don't think they want more obstruction. They didn't send us to Washington to fight each other in some sort of political steel-cage match to see who comes out alive. That's not what they want. They sent us to Washington to work together, to get things done, and to solve the problems that they're grappling with every single day.”