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"Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse."

"Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact."

"Your shield must surpass your weaponry."

"No one from the beginning of time has had security."

"Security is a double-edged sword: While a fence sure protects the fenced, it also imprisons the protected."

"Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem."
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"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."

"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier."

"Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience."
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