Secure Quotes - Page 31

• The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is.

  Walter Russell Mead

  People, Degrees, Purpose

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• Despite the high salaries involved, employing economists is a cost-effective way for banks, and stockbrokers to secure exposure in the media.

  Paul Ormerod

  Media, Salary, Cost

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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• It is often hard to secure unanimity about the borders of legislative power, but that is much easier than to decide how far a particular adjustment diverges from what the judges deem tolerable. On such issues experience has over and over again shown the difficulty of securing unanimity. This is disastrous because disunity cancels the impact of monolithic solidarity on which the authority of a bench of judges so largely depends.

  Learned Hand

  Issues, Impact, Judging

  "The Bill Of Rights". Book by Learned Hand, p. 72, 1958.

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• A society which makes provision for participation in its good of all its members on equal terms and which secures flexible readjustment of its institutions through interaction of the different forms of associated life is in so far democratic. Such a society must have a type of education which gives individuals a personal interest in social relationships and control, and the habits of mind which secure social changes without introducing disorder.

  John Dewey

  Giving, Mind, Different

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.102, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The past is gained, secure, and on record.

  Robert Browning

  Past, Records

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.56, The Floating Press

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• Safety lies in silence. It is easier to rectify what you miss by silence, than to secure what you lose by speaking.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Lying, Safety, Silence

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• But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of the public, and that the common law rules that subject the libeler to responsibility for the public offense, as well as for the private injury, are not abolished by the protection extended in our constitutions. The law of criminal libel rests upon that secure foundation. There is also the conceded authority of courts to punish for contempt when publications directly tend to prevent the proper discharge of judicial functions.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Responsibility, Law, Punishment

  "Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697". Judicial opinion, 1931.

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• O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.

  John Milton

  Strong, Fall, Mind

  1671 Samson Agonistes, l.52-7.

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• You see, in sports you have so many things that aren't expected. There's so much uncertainty. So when players find themselves in a situation where management has a great deal of integrity and they can depend on my word or anybody else's word in the organization, they feel secure. And if the players feel secure, they don't want to leave here. And if they don't want to leave here, they're going to do everything they can on the court to stay here.

  Red Auerbach

  Sports, Integrity, Player

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• To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Lying, Men, Vices

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• My object, having a surplus to deal with, is to consider how I can deal with it to the greatest advantage to the consumer - how, without inflicting any injury on Canada, I can secure the most substantial benefit to this country, to the manufacturing, to the commercial, and to the agricultural interests. The real way in which we can benefit the working and manufacturing classes is, unquestionably, by removing the burden that presses on the springs of manufactures and commerce.

  Robert Peel

  Country, Spring, Real

  Speech in the House of Commons, March 11, 1842.

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• How can I be secure? Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what's beyond measure? That's a sickness. That's a trap. There is no measure. Only greed.

  David Mamet

  Greed, Wealth, Sickness

  David Mamet (2014). “Glengarry Glen Ross”, p.28, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow.

  Matthew Arnold

  Stars, Pain, Grief

  Matthew Arnold (1889). “Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold”

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• Globalization makes our economy, our health, and our security all captive to events on the other side of the world. And no other nation on earth has a greater capacity to shape that global system, or to build consensus around a new set of international rules that expand the zones of freedom, personal safety, and economic well-being. Like it or not, if we want to make America more secure, we are going to have to help make the world more secure.

  Barack Obama

  America, Safety, World

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.304, Canongate Books

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• The Fourth Amendment is clear; we should be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects, and all warrants must have probable cause. Today the government operates largely in secret, while seeking to know everything about our private lives - without probable cause and without a warrant.

  Ron Paul

  Government, House, Secret

  "Ron Paul: We need to know more about what the government is doing". www.campaignforliberty.org. June 10, 2013.

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• From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

  Mark Twain

  Spiritual, Men, Mind

  Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.13, Xist Publishing

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• Our top focus - protecting our Nation - must go beyond homeland preparedness; America will only be secure if we deal with threats before they happen, not just after they happen.

  Bill Frist

  America, Focus, Preparedness

  Congressional Record, Volume 150, pt. 13, September 07, 2004.

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• Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.

  Robert Breault

  Daydreaming, Ifs

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• The gospel frees us from the relentless pressure of having to prove ourselves, for we are already proven and secure.

  Timothy Keller

  Pressure, Relentless, Prove

  Timothy Keller (2012). “Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work”, p.73, Penguin

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• The benefits because his collective parents are permitted to grow secure in their particular roles in his life. His adoptive parents are not unwittingly encouraged to compete to possess him. Nor are his birthparents punished and banished from a place in his life.

  Kathleen Silber

  Parent, Roles, Benefits

  "Dear Birthmother: Thank You for Our Baby". Book by Kathleen Silber and‎ Phylis Speedlin, May 1, 1991.

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• The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Average, Firsts, Prosperity

  Campaign address, Detroit, Mich., 2 Oct. 1932

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• Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one

  Emma Goldman

  Jealousy, Poor, Mediums

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

  Epictetus

  Freedom, Men, Restraint

  Epictetus (1758). “All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.345

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• To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What should be done then? Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. Learn to behave thus even in deepest distress and keep yourself that way in any and every estate of life. I can give you no better advice than to find God where you lost him.

  Meister Eckhart

  Faith, Gone Away, Giving

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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• I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

  Andrew Weil

  Medicine, Disease, Diagnosis

  "The Wrong Diagnosis" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2009.

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