With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature. (Quote by - Robert Toombs)

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)

Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)

But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution. (Quote by - Donald Rumsfeld)

All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and the well-born; the other the mass of the people ... turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the Government ... Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy. (Quote by - Alexander Hamilton)

Some informants spied on their neighbors because they actually believed the propagand Some denounced their enemies in order to settle personal grudges. Some were driven by their own fears to attempt to deflect attention away from themselve Some were motivated by the sense of power turning in their neighbors gave them. (Quote by - Kort E. Patterson)

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. (Quote by - Helen Keller)

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament, not of income. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)