Some Comments on Security
The below excerpts I found while reading some comments on the HowardDean weblog :
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
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
— Henry Ford
We have gone completely overboard on security . Everything has to be secured, jobs, wages, hours- although the ultimate in security is jail, the slave labor camp and the salt mine.
— Cola Parker
In a state-run society the government promises you security. But it's a false promise predicated on the idea that the opposite of security is risk. Nothing could be further from the truth. The opposite of security is insecurity, and the only way to overcome insecurity is to take risks. The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.
—Theodore Forstmann
Distrust and caution are the parents of security .
— Benjamin Franklin
The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either.
—Benjamin Franklin
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
— Benjamin Franklin
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
— Helen Keller
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The man who looks for security , even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
— Henry V. Miller