Safety Quotes

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin

Give, Liberty, Deserve

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken

Politics, Keep, Whole

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Skating, Speed, Ice

There is always safety in valor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill

Men, Fight, Important

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
Frederick Douglass

Political, Republican, Party

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken

Fear, Everything, Else

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill

Men, Fight, Important

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Country, Purpose, Both

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Law, Shall, Highest

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
Irene Peter

Anyone, Market, Thinks

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

Peace, Time, Help

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

Government, Public, Duty

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
Aeschylus

Success, Mother, Obedience

We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.
Paul Ryan

Turn, Dependence, Net

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
Horace

Neighbor, Wall, Stake

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
Alan Shepard

Government, Feeling, Realize

I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
Elayne Boosler

Peace, History, Car

American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.
Jackie Chan

Car, Hurt, Smart

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Love, Work, Peace

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Joseph Joubert

Respect, Future, Past

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
Virgil

Confidence, Find, Cannot

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Horace Mann

Education, Political, Outside

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
Billy Joel

Experience, Different, High

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.
Virgil

Expect, Conquered

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
Josh Billings

Faith, Living, Eat

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
William Makepeace Thackeray

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus

Great, Against, Desire

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
Plautus

Life, Courage, Children

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
Andrew Jackson

Law, Country, Door

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