"I don't think we should ever accept the idea that someone can come along and take away our safety and our freedom."
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"As I said in my State of the Union address ensuring the security of the United States and the safety of our people demands a smart, patient and disciplined approach to the world."
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"Undocumented workers can't report if they're not being paid overtime, or if their health and safety laws are being violated, of if they're not getting the minimum wage. And so a lot of times companies prefer to hire them in order to take advantage of them. We've got to crack down on those employers."
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"Patience is not learned in safety."
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"That the government's power under the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike by injunction so clearly strengthens the hand of the employer-even though it is used only when a strike threatens the national health, welfare, or safety-is a grave blemish and explains much of union resistance to the Act."
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"So, I'm not impressed by BP's promises and I'm not ready to take the word of a company with a track record of pursuing profit over safety."
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"It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man."
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"The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited.... There is no rightto strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time."
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"Since I'm not focusing on my speed as much now as I was heading into the combine, I'm really focusing on my position work, trying to perfect how I play the safety position. I've been doing a lot of backpedaling and drills that focus on turning my hips, which help me out on the football field."
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"Such a man the times have demanded, and such, in the providence of God was given us. But he is gone. Let us strive to deserve, as far as mortals may, the continued care of Divine Providence, trusting that, in future national emergencies, He will not fail to provide us the instruments of safety and security."
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"The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety."
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"There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war."
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"Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do."
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"'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'"
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"Nothing's as good as holding on to safety."
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"The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons."
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"Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety."
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"There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture."
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"Safety comes in our nearness to God, not in our distance from our enemies."
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"For though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper."
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