Safety Quotes

As if there were safety in stupidity alone.

Henry David Thoreau

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - Fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.

H. L. Mencken

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

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Since when is public safety the root password to the Constitution.

C. D. Tavares

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

Since when is public safety the root password to the Constitution?

C. D. Tavares

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 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.

H. L. Mencken

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Jeseph Joubert

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

Where duty is plain, delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may provide both wisdom and safety.

Tryon Edwards

Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

George Bernard Shaw

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 best car safety device is a rear - View mirror with a cop in it.

Dudley Moore

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

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

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.

Albert Smith

Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.

Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil

Where no counsel is, the people fall but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

Proverbs 1114 Bible Hebrew

The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

James Thurber, New Yorker, Feb. 4, 1939, "The Fairly Intelligent Fly".

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

Calvin Coolidge, in a telegram, 1919