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To be on the alert is to live; to be lulled into security is to die.

Safety first has been the motto of the human race for half a million years; but it has never been the motto of leaders.

Security in human systems we're told will always last. Emotions are the sail, and blind faith is the mast. Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression -- everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way -- everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want -- which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants -- everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear -- which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression gainst any neighbor -- anywhere in the world.

Although he who walks behind an elephant may feel very secure, he is likely to get splattered with elephant dung.

Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been too much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god -- Society, The State, The Government, The Commune -- must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.

Man's security comes from within himself.

The way to be safe is never to be secure.

Happiness, greatness, pride -- nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... Is freedom.