Jeff Fortenberry Quotes

Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content.

There can be no security where there is fear.

People want security in this insecure world.

We'll have nothing to fear.

They can't hurt you now.

We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.

If people don't feel safe, they're not going to have hope.

There are many people who live with terrorism every day.

I have been beset night and day at Alton. And now, if I leave here and go elsewhere, violence may overtake me in my retreat, and I have no more claim upon the protection of any other community than I have upon this.

The terrorist seeks to smash the most fundamental liberty of all: the right to lead our everyday lives on the basic assumption of safety.

At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.

All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.

Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn't have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything.

I actually had an experience where I thought somebody was breaking into my house. That's got to be the most terrified I've ever been in my life. I don't know if that's saying much. The fear, especially as a female in a house by yourself, was horrible.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

When we are fearful and worried all the time, we are living as if we don't believe that we have a strong and able Shepherd who is tenderhearted toward us, who only leads us to good places, who protects us and lovingly watches over us.

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.

Dad never demonstrated any fear, although my sisters and I lived in terror he’d be killed by an assassin.

We must choose between freedom and fear – we cannot have both.

The advance of freedom is the surest strategy to undermine the appeal of terror in the world.

They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid.

They'll never do this to you again.

No one will be harmed. You have nothing to fear. You will all be evacuated.

Freedom is the best antidote to terror.