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• Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.

  Al Franken

  Hard Work, Class, Promise

  "Fighting For America’s Middle Class, Netroots Nation 2011" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.

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• Too many people don't protect their smartphones with a password or PIN. I anticipate that Apple's fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.

  Al Franken

  Apples, Iphone, Smartphones

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• He that's secure is not safe.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Safety, Safe

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.32, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• That's the awful thing about dating. Tight underwear. We would all like to be in a big bra and pants and when you are in a secure relationship you can do that.

  Dawn French

  Dating, Pants, Underwear

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• Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.

  Bill Frist

  Senior, Retirement, Powerful

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

  Erich Fromm

  Business, Inner Peace, Insecurity

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• A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere.

  Mel Gibson

  Family, Children, Home

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• I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Success, Law, Political

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1869

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• 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

  Hate, Women, Memorable

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time.

  William Hague

  Powerful, Rights, Freedom Of Speech

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• I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

  Herbie Hancock

  Buddhism, Might, Jazz

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• The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.

  Sam Harris

  World, Way, Facts

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am confident that in the end freedom and democracy will prevail over terror and tyranny. We will win this war on terror - and when we do Americans, the British, Iraqis, and people around the world will be more secure.

  Doc Hastings

  War, Winning, People

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• Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Freedom, Government, Our Generation

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, 1960.

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• It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Use, Problem, Individual

  "The Use of Knowledge in Society". American Economic Review, www.econlib.org. September 1945.

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  The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

  Patrick Henry

  Fake People, Freedom, 4th Of July

  "The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: Volume 3". Book by Jonathan Elliot, 1836.

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• I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Let Me

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• Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

  David Hume

  Wise, Government, People

  David Hume (1754). “ESSAYS AND TREATISES ON SEVERAL SUBJECTS.”, p.140

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• There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

  David Hume

  Learning, Men, Numbers

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.347

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• If you're secure in yourself, and even if you're not secure in yourself, you don't need to bully.

  Joan Jett

  Bully, Needs, Ifs

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• In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders.

  Bobby Jindal

  Borders, Aftermath, September

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• People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.

  Daniel Kahneman

  People, Workplace, Economy

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• It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Humanity

  Speech of at Civic Auditorium, Seattle, Washington, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 06, 1960.

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• The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Strong, Hate

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• As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation.

  Ron Kind

  Responsibility, America, President

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