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SECURITY: People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching. (Buckminster Fuller, U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983)
SECURITY: Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. (Helen Adams Keller, U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)
SECURITY: If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking . . . is freedom. (Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. five-star army general who served as the 34th president of the Unites States,1890-1969)
SECURITY: The way to be safe is never to be secure. (Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founders of the U.S., a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)
SECURITY: It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity. (Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, 1905-1961)
SECURITY: Safety first has been the motto of the human race for half a million years; but it has never been the motto of leaders. (Unknown source)
SECURITY: Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. (Joseph Wood Krutch, U.S. writer, critic, and naturalist, 1893-1970)
SECURITY: Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. (William Congreve, English playwright and poet, 1670-1729)
SECURITY: Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)
SECURITY: Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life than of death. (James F. Byrnes, U.S. udge and politician,, having served in the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court, and as governor of the state of South Carolina, 1882-1972)