(5841 quotes found)
“We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure”
Karl Popper
“Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.”
William Congreve
“The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wish for affection and security. Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.”
Abraham Maslow
“It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?”
Robert Redford
“Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.”
James Madison
“We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers.”
William J. H. Boetcker
“Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous”
William Proxmire
“The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.”
William Osler
“Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.”
P. J. O'Rourke
