Security Quotes

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Brian Tracy

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace.

Ronald Reagan

The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

Erich Fromm

I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.

Princess of Wales Diana

[possible source: bbc broadcast april 4, 1942]

George Orwell

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

Germaine Greer

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

John Dryden

There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.

P. J. O'Rourke

The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.

H. Stanley Judd

They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now.

Captain James

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream-the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.

Ronald Reagan

A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Byrnes

I have come back again to where I belong; not an enchanted place, but the walls are strong.

Dorothy H. Rath

Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression.

John Foster Dulles

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

Norman Mailer

Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god -- Society, The State, The Government, The Commune -- must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.

Rose Wilder Lane

Kipling sees clearly that men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilised, are there to guard and feed them.

George Orwell, essay, 1942