Security Quotes - Page 21

• I'm not surprised that Governor Dean would oppose [the $87 billion to fund Iraq reconstruction].... I've lost confidence that he has any understanding of the national security responsibilities of a President... [b]ecause I don't believe that he has any understanding of the international role that the United States has to play in the world. I think it's a kind of a pseudo-isolationism that appeals to the base of the caucus voters. I do not believe that particularly in the case of Iraq that Governor Dean has any fundamental understanding of what's at stake here.

  John McCain

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.

  Ronald Reagan

  Misunderstood, Politics, Action

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point, would be via self-delusion.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Thinking, Self, Would Be

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• There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a bumper sticker bragging that you were on to it. Fantasy is a by-product of security: it's the difference between hanging upside down in your dominatrix's bondage parlor after work on Friday and enduring the real thing for years on end in Saddam's prisons.

  Mark Steyn

  Friday, Jobs, Real

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• I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.

  Rachel Maddow

  People, Sound, Absurd

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• Faith is so rare-and religion so common-because no one wants to live between first base and second base. Faith is the in-between space where you're not sure you'll make it to second base. You've let go of one thing and haven't yet latched into another. Most of us choose the security of first base.

  Richard Rohr

  Faith, Letting Go, Space

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• The parable of the talents is a good analogy of what happens when we give. When we merely try to hold on to what is given or entrusted to us, life may seem to take away even that. But when we choose to use what life has given us, the return of abundance can include friendship, companionship, financial blessings, homes, transportation, and security in wonderful ways. The universe holds nothing back from the one who lovingly and sincerely gives.

  John Templeton

  Home, Blessing, Giving

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• My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibili ty of my Savior.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Faith, Christian, Religious

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• We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.

  Peter De Vries

  Adventure, Boredom, Pay

  Peter De Vries (2014). “Without a Stitch in Time: A Selection of the Best Humorous Short Pieces”, p.32, University of Chicago Press

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• The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.

  Harland Miller

  Insecure, Worry, Trouble

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• The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Real, Heart, Light

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• Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie; and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Believe, Son

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• Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is the price of his immunity from political pressure and of the security of his tenure.

  Learned Hand

  Loyalty, Believe, Political Opinions

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a
  container already built for us to fit inside: A social security number, a gender, a race, a profession or an I.Q. I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in, rather than
  what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?  Would we still be able to exist if we were authentically un-contained?

  Paige Bradley

  Race, Numbers, World

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• The only security is courage.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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• Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.

  James Fallows

  Military, World, Assumption

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• Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.

  Ulrich Walter

  Space, Problem, Astronaut

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• Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sea, Land, Hug

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• National security rests on the credible threat of a form of warfare universally condemned since the Dark Ages, the wholesale slaughter of noncombatants.

  George Will

  Dark, Age, Warfare

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Progress, Modern, Economic

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But who guards the guardians?

  Juvenal

  Guardian

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• Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.

  Euripides

  Safety, Holding On

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Electra, translated by E. T. Vermeule. The Phoenician women, translated by E. Wyckoff. The Bacchae, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Chronological note on the plays of Euripides, by R. Lattimore”

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• True security lies not in the things one has, but in the things one can do without.

  Og Mandino

  Lying, Can Do

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

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• Music is like my security blanket.

  Yoko Ono

  Music Is, Blanket

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 16, 2009.

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• Most people are looking for security, a nice, safe, prosperous future. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's called the American Dream.

  Lee Iacocca

  Dream, Nice, Prosperous Future

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