Safety Quotes

C. d. tavares - since when is public safety the root password to...
H. l. mencken - the one permanent emotion of the inferior man is...
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
H. l. mencken - the whole aim of practical politics is to keep...
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.
Tryon Edwards
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Jeseph Joubert
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
Calvin Coolidge, in a telegram, 1919
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
As if there were safety in stupidity alone.
Henry David Thoreau
Since when is public safety the root password to the Constitution.
C. D. Tavares
Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.
Albert Smith
There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.
Edmund Burke
Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
George Bernard Shaw
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.
Henry Louis Mencken
Where no counsel is, the people fall but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.
Proverbs 1114 Bible Hebrew
Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.
Tryon Edwards
The best car safety device is a rear - View mirror with a cop in it.
Dudley Moore
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. Tolkien
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
James Thurber, New Yorker, Feb. 4, 1939, "The Fairly Intelligent Fly".
It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any path for safety except that of duty.
William Nevins
The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.
Confucius
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
Emma Goldman, Living My Life, 1931
Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.
Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil
The things that will destroy America are prosperity - At - Any - Price, safety - First instead of duty - First, the love of soft living, and the get - Rich - Quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt