Quotes on Safety

Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.

We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.

The route to the target is more important than the target. We are going to go for the target, but we enjoy the route as well.

I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.

Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?

The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.

A lot of the people who keep a gun at home for safety are the same ones who refuse to wear a seat belt

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

There are times when you devote yourself to a higher cause than personal safety.

[T]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty - that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

That is the difference we make in the world. And our own safety, our own security, depends upon our willingness to do what it takes to defend this nation and uphold the values that we stand for - timeless ideals that will endure long after those who offer only hate and destruction have been vanquished from the Earth.

In the sea there are countless treasures, _x000D_ _x000D_ But if you desire safety, it is on the shore.

A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.

Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels because I can't do plots.'' But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.