Safety Quotes - Page 10

• I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Encouraging, 4th Of July, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1988). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• At the tail end of the great global boom, their old richer consumers are behaving more like new poorer ones, also increasingly concerned about cost, quality, and safety.

  Andrew Curry

  Business, Quality, Tails

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• The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove to be as far-reaching and important as any accomplishment of my administration. The reduction of the threat to America's health and safety from thousands of toxic-waste sites will continue to be an urgent but bitterly fought issue-another example for the conflict between the public welfare and the profits of a few private despoilers of our nation's environment.

  Jimmy Carter

  Health, Science, Toxic Waste

  Jimmy Carter (2013). “Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President”, p.591, University of Arkansas Press

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• Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Justice to them, the welfare of the States in which they live, the safety of the whole Republic, the dignity of the elective franchise, - all alike demand that the still remaining bonds of ignorance shall be unloosed and broken, and the minds as well as the bodies of the emancipated go free.

  Robert Charles Winthrop

  Ignorance, Hands, Justice

  Robert Charles Winthrop (1886). “Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1878-1886”

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• I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Beer, Giving

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [13]

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• I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I'll fix it.

  Mitt Romney

  Needs, Election, Poor

  "“So Rich, So Poor”: Peter Edelman on Ending U.S. Poverty & Why He Left Clinton Admin over Welfare Law". "Democracy now" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 23, 2012.

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• Gone were but the Winter,
  Come were but the Spring,
  I would go to a covert
  Where the birds sing;
  
  Where in the whitethorn
  Singeth a thrush,
  And a robin sings
  In the holly-bush.
  
  Full of fresh scents
  Are the budding boughs
  Arching high over
  A cool green house:
  
  Full of sweet scents,
  And whispering air
  Which sayeth softly:
  We spread no snare;
  
  Here dwell in safety,
  Here dwell alone,
  With a clear stream
  And a mossy stone.
  
  Here the sun shineth
  Most shadily;
  Here is heard an echo
  Of the far sea,
  Though far off it be.

  Christina Rossetti

  Sweet, Spring, Winter

  Christina Rossetti (2008). “Poems and Prose”, p.11, OUP Oxford

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• Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.

  Laozi

  Humility, Political, Heaven

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• p.61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that. He was a cold, disquieting presence in the room; his presence had a strange quality: it made itself felt and yet it made them feel that he was not there; or perhaps that he was and they weren't.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Sight, Doors

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• Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.

  Isaac Asimov

  Stars, Reality, Men

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “The End of Eternity”, p.248, Macmillan

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• I have never believed we had to choose between either a clean and safe environment or a growing economy. Protecting the health and safety of all Americans doesn't have to come at the expense of our economy's bottom line. And creating thriving companies and new jobs doesn't have to come at the expense of the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, or the natural landscape in which we live. We can, and indeed must, have both.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Work, Health

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• The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.

  George W. Bush

  Home, Science, Earth

  The Space Shuttle "Columbia" Tragedy Speech to the Nation, delivered 1 February 2003, White House Cabinet Room

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• This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road to safety, and thus prevent his fighting with the courage of despair. After that, you may crush him.

  Sun Tzu

  Crush, War, Believe

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.37, Xist Publishing

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• The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.

  Damon Hill

  Athlete, Problem, Danger

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• The pilots I worked with in the aerospace industry were willing to put on almost anything to keep them safe in case of a crash, but regular people in cars don't want to be uncomfortable even for a minute.

  Nils Bohlin

  Science, Aerospace, People

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• A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be; and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Adventure, Past

  Alfred North Whitehead (1975). “Whitehead's American Essays in Social Philosophy”, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Running, Powerful, Risk

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.34

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• Reforms to our complex and dysfunctional immigration system should not in any way favor those who came here illegally over the millions of applicants who seek to come here lawfully. Additionally, the framework carves out a special exception for agricultural workers that has little justification.

  Mike Lee

  America, Goal, Special

  "On Senate Immigraton Proposal, Bipartisan Sponsors Claim Momentum For Uphill Battle" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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• Gotta have safety at our borders. We're a sovereign nation, gotta protect our borders. Make sure the workplace doesn't become a magnet for folks to be hired without the authorization. And then let's be realistic and sensible about how we approach all those folks who made America their home, established businesses, have children who have gone on to be valedictorians at their high school - and let's do these things in a very sensible way.

  Xavier Becerra

  Children, Home, School

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• Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

  Ben Hecht

  Justice, Diversity, Mind

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• Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal.

  David A. Morse

  Justice, Motto, Social

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• Refugee problems may often seem intractable but they are not insoluble. In our experience there are two basic prerequisites for solution: the political will of leaders to tackle the causes and to settle for peace, and international determination to push for peace and then to consolidate it. Consolidating peace means helping societies emerging from war to reintegrate refugees in safety and dignity, to rebuild their institutions - including in the field of justice and human rights - and to resume their economic development.

  Sadako Ogata

  Determination, War, Mean

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• The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no shade of color, no mere misfortune of circumstances, can annul that birthright charter, which God has bequeathed to every being upon whom he has stamped his own image, by making him a free moral agent, and that he who robs his fellow man of this tramples upon right, subverts justice, outrages humanity, unsettles the foundation of human safety, and sacrilegiously assumes the prerogative of God.

  Theodore Dwight Weld

  Men, Color, Law

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• When the safety of America is threatened, we will spend any amount of money. The real safety of our nation is preparing this next generation so that they can take our place [in] thinking and technology and democracy.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Education, Real, Technology

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• I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Love, Loneliness, Age

  "Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life". Book by Caroline Moorehead, p. 88, 2003.

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