Quotes about Security, National Defense

"Most people want security in this world, not liberty: Henry Louis Mencken" American journalist, 1880-1956
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"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security": Dwight David Eisenhower : 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969
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"I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction" : John Steinbeck: American novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962, 1902-1968
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"The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force" : Norman Cousins: American essayist and editor, long associated with the Saturday Review, 1912-1990
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"Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous" : William Proxmire