Safe Quotes - page 4

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time. (Thomas Jefferson)
I know of no safe repository for the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to increase their discretion by education. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial. View quote
Martin Van Buren
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing. View quote
James Thurber
There are a great number of peoples who need more than just words of sympathy from the international community. They need a real and sustained commitment to help end their cycles of violence, and launch them on a safe passage to prosperity. View quote
Kofi Annan
Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe. View quote
George Henry Lewes
A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries. View quote
Gro Harlem Brundtland
If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind? View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
Let me get a sip of water here...you figure this stuff is safe to drink? [audience yells "No"] Actually, I don't care, I drink it anyway. You know why? 'Cause I'm an American and I expect a little cancer in my food and water. I'm a loyal American and I'm not happy unless I let government and industry poison me a little bit every day. View quote
George Carlin
All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe. (Laura Welch Bush)
Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The safety of our country demands an end to the doctrinaire, ineffective policies that currently grip Washington. Enough is enough! A safe America - a just America - that's what we want, that's what we need. View quote
Wesley Clark
Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition. View quote
Ai Weiwei
The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved the national goal of putting Americans on the moon. The landing approach was, by far, the most difficult and challenging part of the flight. Walking on the lunar surface was very interesting, but it was something we looked on as reasonably safe and predictable. So the feeling of elation accompanied the landing rather than the walking. View quote
Neil Armstrong
Not safe?” I asked, all innocence. "Surely it isn't illegal here to complain about young people these days? How cruel. I had thought it a basic part of human nature, one of the few universally practiced human customs. View quote
Ann Leckie
A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are built for. View quote
John Augustus Shedd
Nobody is safe of his life, property and health when the parliament deliberates. View quote
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
There is no safe standard to tell man from animals. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
However, it is safe to say that at the peak in 1929 the number of active speculators was less - and probably was much less - than a million. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. (William Tecumseh Sherman)
No man is wise or safe, but he that is honest. View quote
Walter Raleigh
In every heart there is a room A sanctuary safe and strong To heal the wounds from lovers past Until a new one comes along. View quote
Billy Joel
I wanted people who wouldn't become too worried about casualties. One always should be concerned about casualties, but the risk of incurring casualties can't be allowed to affect decisions, unless it's evident casualties will be prohibitively heavy. There may be no safe way to write this. View quote
Christopher Vokes
We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma. View quote
Randall Terry