Secure Quotes
1088 quotes by 856 authors
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American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making…
— John Yoo
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To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always…
— Mary Astell
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He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The…
— Russell Conwell
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most…
— William Cowper
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for…
— Horace
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The year is made up of minutes. Let these be watched as having been dedicated to God. It is in the sanctification of the small…
— G. Campbell Morgan
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Only those who put tomorrow completely into God's hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
— Tacitus
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Liberty is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of…
— George Washington
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In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon…
— John Ruskin
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Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly…
— Henry Fielding
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I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down…
— David Hobson
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Home is a sanctuary for me and the place where I can relax. Everyone should have the right to a safe and secure home.
— Corinne Bailey Rae
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The one common undertaking and universal instrument of the great majority of the human race is the United Nations. A patient, constructive long-term use of…
— Trygve Lie
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In my humble opinion, those who come to engage in debates of consequence, and who challenge accepted wisdom, should expect to be treated badly. Nonetheless,…
— Clarence Thomas
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There is a fixation in the human mind for structures, because in a structured life one feels secure, one knows where one is, one knows…
— Rajneesh
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As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children, affordable…
— John Sweeney
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I am a man of peace. I am longing and working and praying for peace, but I will not surrender the safety and security of…
— Stanley Baldwin
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The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic,…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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