Public Safety Quotes

• Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

  Barbara Boxer

  Law, Safety, Police

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• Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Government, Safety, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Safety, Individual, Justification

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• By working to ensure we live in a society that prioritizes public safety, education, and innovation, entrepreneurship can thrive and create a better world for all of us to live in.

  Ron Conway

  Safety, Innovation, World

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• There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Time, Safety, Strikes

  Telegram to Samuel Gompers, 14 Sept. 1919

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• Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Mean, Safety, Liberty

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• The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

  Gavin Newsom

  Safety, Focus, Eras

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• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, People, Liberty

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.172, Knopf

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• The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left ordinary citizens with no choice but to protect themselves as best they can, they now try to take our guns away. In fact they blame us and our guns for crime. This is so wrong that it cannot be an honest mistake.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Mistake, Gun, Class

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• Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.

  Roger Wicker

  Country, School, Safety

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• The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, Jobs, Eye

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• Well, you know, I think in conversations with members of the Senate and others, they all recognize that the issue of immigration is important. It's important to our nation, it's important to our public safety, it's important to our security, it's important to our economic well-being moving forward. And it's not something that's going to go away.

  Janet Napolitano

  Moving, Thinking, Issues

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• In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety.

  Jim Ramstad

  Home, Safety, Drug

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• In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.

  Rachel Maddow

  Fire, Safety, Massachusetts

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• The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.

  Edward Gibbon

  Law, Safety, History

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:”, p.732, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Independent, Army, Safety

  Proclamation to the French People, June 22, 1815.

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• If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the ends of government are accomplished . . .

  Algernon Sidney

  Government, Safety, Justice

  Algernon Sidney (1794). “Life and Writings”, p.386

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• What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

  Kamala Harris

  Safety, Want, Framed

  "Kamala Harris: Democrats' anti-Palin" by Ben Smith, www.politico.com. December 24, 2010.

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• I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city.

  Alan Autry

  Men, Cities, Safety

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

  James Madison

  Independent, Rights, Class

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.12, University of Virginia Press

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• I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

  Campbell Scott

  Enforcement, Littles, Needs

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• We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

  L. Neil Smith

  Believe, Government, Hands

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• Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.

  Dale Spender

  Education, War, Women

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• We should not be scrimping on investments in public safety. The lack of infrastructure spending is costing us lives in America. It's costing every commuter.

  Cory Booker

  America, Safety, Investment

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• Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.

  Daniel Webster

  Exercise, Government, Safety

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