Secure Quotes

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The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time… — Thomas Jefferson
Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to… — William Howard Taft
Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will. — Alphonsus Liguori
And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced… — Abraham Lincoln
Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they can secure it… — Tom Robbins
Christ is to be answerable for all those that are given to Him, at the last day, and therefore we need not doubt but that… — Thomas Brooks
Just as the First and Fourth Amendment secure individual rights of speech and security respectively, the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and… — John Ashcroft
Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our… — Earl Warren
But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor… — John Denham
[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. — Samuel Adams
Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics,… — Adolphe Quetelet
All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without… — Barack Obama
If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been… — Joyce Brothers
Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure. — Faye Wattleton
It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise. — Luc de Clapiers
Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute. — Dirk Bogarde
The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed… — Gene Spafford
Where men cannot freely convey their thoughts to one another, no other liberty is secure. — William Ernest Hocking
A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to… — William A. Niskanen
[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing-one great,… — Paul Halmos

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