Security Quotes
3136 quotes by 1874 authors
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Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of confidence or security.
— Alexander Hamilton
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Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as comports…
— Calvin Coolidge
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... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S. benevolence,…
— Robert Parry
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We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.
— Roger Caras
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Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he…
— Albert Einstein
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A huge national security state has developed in the United States since World War II. Its function is to buttress anticommunist, procapitalist governments and undermine…
— Michael Parenti
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This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.
— Henry A. Kissinger
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First, we must continually reaffirm the principle that the security of the United States is not, and should never be, a partisan matter. The United…
— William Cohen
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The programs supported by the International Affairs Budget are as essential to our national security as defense programs. Development and diplomacy protect our nation by…
— Tom Ridge
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Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.
— Thomas Jefferson
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And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts…
— Joseph Story
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It is evident that the right of acquiring and possessing property, and having it protected, is one of the natural, inherent, and unalienable rights of…
— William Paterson
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Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . . . . But…
— Alexander Hamilton
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[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the…
— James Madison
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Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in…
— Robert Southey
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Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in,…
— John C. Maxwell
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The real secret to a life of abundance is to stop spending your days searching for security and to start spending your time pursuing opportunity.
— Robin Sharma
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You know, there was a recent poll which said that young people in the generation of the students here felt it was far more likely…
— William J. Clinton
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As for Israel, our friendship is rooted deeply in a shared history and shared values. Our commitment to Israel's security is unshakeable. And we will…
— Barack Obama
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Even while we may at times disagree, as friends sometimes will, the bonds between the United States and Israel are unbreakable and the commitment of…
— Barack Obama
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