Quotes
Quotes about Safety
Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world.
In the old world that is passing, in the new world that is coming, national efficiency has been and will be a controlling factor in national safety and welfare.
If it wasn't for faith, there would be no living in this world; we couldn't even eat hash with any safety.
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We couldn't even eat hash with safety.
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel!" [Lat., Intrantis medici facies tres esse videntur Aegrotanti; hominis, Daemonis, atque Dei. Cum primum accessit medicus dixitque salutem, En Deus aut custos angelus, aeger ait.]
A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness--That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such Principles and and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. . . .
Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.
A good wife is heaven's last, best gift to man, - his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety...
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Life is an uncharted ocean. The cautious mariner must needs take Many soundings ere he conduct his barque to port in safety.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
There is safety in numbers. [Lat., Defendit numerus.]
Monuments of the safety with which errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
We, that would be known The father of our people, in our study, And vigilance for their safety, must not change Their ploughshares into swords, and force them from The secure shade of their own vines, to be Scorched with the flames of war.
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.
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a "good thing" to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.
Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
