"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

Security, Will

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"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security."

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"The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the United States is absolutely serious. The jihadists have in the past bragged that America is too feeble and corrupt to fight. A lot is involved in disproving that delusion on their part."

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"We don't like security rules and laws, but without them men will be animals, perhaps the most dangerous animals."

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"I respectfully suggest the propriety of having stationed at the arsenal a full company of U. S. troops, that they may be made available in any emergency, from fire, insurrection, or any thing else."

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"I tapped my cup to his, grateful to have found Shaun, because for a minute there, I'd thought I was going to have to save myself. Instead, I'd wandered into the protective care of a sexy older man."

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"EVERY DOG'S STORYI have a bed, my very own.It's just my size.And sometimes I like to sleep alonewith dreams inside my eyes.But sometimes dreams are dark and wild and creepyand I wake and am afraid, though I don't know why.But I'm no longer sleepyand too slowly the hours go by.So I climb on the bed where the light of the moonis shining on your faceand I know it will be morning soon.Everybody needs a safe place."

Mary Oliver, American Poet

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"Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security."

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"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"We've talked to the Europeans about it. It's clear if those negotiations fail, then we are agreed with the Europeans that the next step is to take the matter to the U.N. Security Council."

Stephen Hadley, American Politician

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"Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k)."

Paul Krugman, American Journalist

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"The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon."

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"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."

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"The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law."

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"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

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