I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems. (Quote by - Donna Shalala)

Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too much of a safety hazard do t see the danger of the big picture. They're courting disaster by encouraging others to use this same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like. (Quote by - Alan Dershowitz)

I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents. (Quote by - Carol Moseley Braun)

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice. (Quote by - Fredrich August von Hayek)

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving ... if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre. (Quote by - David Sarnoff)

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize. (Quote by - Sinclair Lewis)

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of. (Quote by - Joseph Butler)

The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty. (Quote by - Justice William O. Douglas)

All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing the obtaining of happiness and safety. (Quote by - George Mason)

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within. (Quote by - Douglas MacArthur)

The liberty of the press is essential to the security of freedom in a state; it ought not, therefore, to be restricted in this commonwealth. (Quote by - Massachusetts Declaration of Rights)

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion. (Quote by - Demosthenes)

Leaving Iraq without military assistance during its transition, and before it is stable enough to ensure its own citizens' security, would pose a tremendous risk. We must complete our mission. (Quote by - Doc Hastings)

Since September 11, the U.S. has significantly improved its security to prevent another attack. (Quote by - Timothy Murphy)

If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing. (Quote by - Aaliyah)

It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority. (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)

Government by idea tends to take in everything, to make the whole of society obedient to the idea. Spaces not so governed are unconquered, beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger. (Quote by - Lord Acton)

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth. (Quote by - Benjamin Tucker)

The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. (Quote by - Daniel Webster)

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place. (Quote by - Eric Clapton)

None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it. (Quote by - Hubert H. Humphrey)

Laura Bush is the same way. I mean, they both, um, understand, they understand the challenges of the moment and understand the responsibilities, he understands the responsibilities he has to protect the national security of America as well as the economic security of America. (Quote by - Donald Evans)

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. (Quote by - Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation. (Quote by - Mike Fitzpatrick)

For my children, it makes sense to talk about modernizing Social Security, letting them create stronger personal accounts, letting them get a higher rate of return over the long run. (Quote by - John Sununu)