Definition of Safety

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Safety

A safety touchdown.

Short for Safety bicycle.

The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss.

Freedom from whatever exposes one to danger or from liability to cause danger or harm; safeness; hence, the quality of making safe or secure, or of giving confidence, justifying trust, insuring against harm or loss, etc.

Preservation from escape; close custody.

Same as Safety touchdown, below.

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Safety Quotations

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

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

There is always safety in valor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Safety Translations

safety in Afrikaans is sekerheid, veiligheid
safety in Danish is sikkerhed
safety in Dutch is veiligheid, zekerheid
safety in German is Sicherheit, Sicherheitsfaktor
safety in Italian is sicurezza
safety in Latin is salus, incolumitas
safety in Norwegian is sikkerhet
safety in Spanish is seguridad

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