Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [101-120] of 345 Security quotesSecurity QuotesSecurity Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.~ Justice William O. Douglas I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.~ Frederick Douglass The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.~ Frederick Douglass You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! -- and that! -- and that! -- and that!~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.~ Will Durant The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.~ Friedrich Durrenmatt That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -- the truly democratic thing about it -- is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.~ Barbara Ehrenreich A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.~ Albert Einstein 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 It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.~ Joycelyn Elders We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson If you suppose that good intentions justify intruding on the lives and properties of your fellow citizens: Do you appreciate being the target of somebody else's good intentions, or haven't you had that particular dubious pleasure yet?~ Cat Farmer Censorship is a dangerous tool that is primarily used to suppress from those who would challenge oppression by the society and that state, and particularly victimizes minorities. [It] can never eliminate evil ideas, and so the best answer to bad speech is more speech.~ Feminists Against Censorship Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy and constant inconvenience as the wrong people gain access to information, as one wastes time convincing the inquisitors that one is in fact innocent, or as one struggles to untangle the errors of the errant machine.~ Victor Ferkiss We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.~ E. M. Forster Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.~ Harry Emerson Fosdick Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.~ Alan Dean Foster “For your own good” is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. ~ Janet Frame The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.~ Felix Frankfurter When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.~ Benjamin Franklin Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print