This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
You have no security for a man who has no religious principle.
The United States maintains a globe-spanning network of over 800 military bases that formerly represented tokens of security to regimes throughout the world
Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety.
The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
Neglect | Revolution | Security |
Richard Nixon, fully Richard Milhous Nixon
The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.
Administration | Security | Will |
We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of course wonder is costly. You couldn't incorporate it into a modern state, because it is the antithesis of the anxiously worshiped security which is what a modern state is asked to give. Wonder is marvelous but it is also cruel, cruel, cruel. It is undemocratic, discriminatory and pitiless.
Antithesis | Dread | Fear | Freedom | Security | Wonder | World |
Robert Byrd, fully Robert Carlyle Byrd
Congress should be approving a more robust homeland security bill.
Security |
Yitzhak Shamir, born Icchak Jaziernicki
I considered the prevention of war as the test of our security policy; in addition to being able to rapidly and forcefully end any war forced upon us.
Robert W. Fuller, fully Robert Works Fuller
When the power inherent in a position of authority is used to fortify that position, the institution's purpose is subverted. Behaviors are not aligned with the institution';s professed goals; rather they are skewed to preserve the rank, power, salaries, and security of rank-holders.
Authority | Position | Power | Purpose | Purpose | Security |
Samuel ha-Nagid, born Samuel ibn Naghrela or Naghrillah
Is there a sea between me and you, that I should not turn aside to be with you, that I should not run with a troubled heart to sit at your grave-side? Truly, if I did not do so, I would be a traitor to our brotherly love. O my brother, here I am, facing you, sitting by your grave, and the grief in my heart is as great as on the day you died. If I greeted you, I would hear no reply. You do not come out to meet me when I visit your grounds. You will not laugh in my company, nor I in yours. You cannot see my face, nor I yours, for the pit is your home, the grave your dwelling-place! First-born of my father, son of my mother, may you have peace in your final rest, and may the spirit of God rest upon your spirit and your soul! I am returning to my own soil, for you have been locked under the soil. Sometimes I shall sleep, sometimes wake—while you lie in your sleep forever. But until my last day, the fire of your loss will remain in my heart!
Jonah Barrington, Sir Jonah Barrington
It's not how old you are, it's how hard you work at it.
Better | Business | Doubt | Focus | Good | Industry | Maxims | Method | Optimism | People | Pessimism | Popularity | Search | Security | Skill | Study | Thought | Time | Will | Business | Think | Thought | Value |
Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?
Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.
Challenge | Day | Defense | Mankind | Prison | Security | Technology | Weapons |
Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much
Security |
Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.
Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
The history of our civilization, the great advances that made it possible, is not a story of cynics or doom criers. It is a gallant chronicle of the optimists, the determined people, men and women, who dreamed great dreams and dared to try whatever it took to make them come true.
Security |
Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
Freedom | Individual | Law | Order | Security |
Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success -- only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive, and free. Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development.