Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither."
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Security
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Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"The only security of all is in a free press."
Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"Here’s someone who says there’s no such thing, it’s all intelligent design. How sure am I of my own views? Don’t take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think you’re bound to be okay, because you’re in the safely moral majority."
L. Ron Hubbard
Author
"Insecurity exists in the absence of knowledge. All security derives from knowledge."
Kemmons Wilson
Businessman
"Put opportunity ahead of security."
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"We have to be able track the ways in which fear, for instance, is monopolised by state and media institutions, ways in which fear is actually promoted and distributed as a way of bolstering the need for greater security and militarisation."
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"A people who chose security over liberty will receive neither nor deserve either."
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"It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now."
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"Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security."
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"Security breeds stagnation."
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"Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back."
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"The more security you seek, the less freedom you have."
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"Korea and the U.S. have maintained a combined forces command system for a long time. Even if we were to get operational control back, as long as this combined system is maintained, our countries will continue to have combined security, and U.S. forces will continue to play their part in our security."
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"There is no security in following the call to adventure."
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"There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves."
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"Music is like my security blanket."
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"Self-confidenc e alone is security. Your ability is your security. There is no security but you."
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"Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench."
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"There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money."
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"Don't ask for security, ask for adventure"
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"One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well."
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"If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both."
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"Securities, certitudes and peace do not lead to discoveries."
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"Security will produce danger."
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"Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability."
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