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• I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

  Dan Brown

  Ideas, Everything Happens For A Reason, Agency

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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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• True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Jobs, Freedom, People

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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  They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Sacrifice, Security And Freedom, Liberty

  Richard Jackson, Benjamin Franklin (1759). “An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania: From Its Origin, So Far as Regards the Several Points of Controversy, which Have, from Time to Time, Arisen Between the Several Governors of that Province, and Their Several Assemblies : Founded on Authentic Documents”, p.7

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• The way to be safe is never to be secure.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Change, Safety, Doubt

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.272, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Transition, Spirit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.413, Library of America

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• The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

  Lord Acton

  Country, Freedom, Equality

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.30, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

  William Congreve

  Expectations, Joy, Risk

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.229

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• To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

  John Dewey

  Happiness, Work, Opportunity

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.311, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

  Harold W. Dodds

  Insecurity, Spurs, Force

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• For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Military, Mean, Gun

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.226, Algora Publishing

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• Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Atheism, Finance, Can Do

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1967). “And Even If You Do: Essays on Man, Manners & Machines”

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• The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

  Henry Miller

  Change, Pain, Men

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.339, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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

  Nature, Thinking, Earth Day

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• It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Graduation, Witty, Money

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.4, Oscar Wilde

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• Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Gun, Sheep, Liberty

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• Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Stupid, Party, Believe

  Letter to Edgar Newton Eisenhower, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 08, 1954.

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• 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

  Life, Motivational, Inspiration

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 11, 2014

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• Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Freedom, Sacrifice, Liberty

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• We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Expression, Essentials

  Annual Message to Congress, 6 Jan. 1941 See Roosevelt and Churchill 3

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• Security will produce danger.

  Samuel Johnson

  Danger, Produce

  Samuel Johnson (1788). “Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: To which are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed”, p.139

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• It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

  Clay Shirky

  Computer, Used, Expensive

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• If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Government, Bed, Want

  Speech to luncheon clubs, Galveston, Texas, December 8, 1949, The New York Times, p. 23, December 9, 1949,.

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• Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

  Edmund Burke

  Independence, Psychological, Anxious

  Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it's a necessity all the time.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sometimes, Used, Inconvenience

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