Melissa Marr Quotes

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

I am exceptionally fond of all the brave servicemen and women who have worked, and continue to work, to keep us safe and secure, and protect our values.

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

To have faith requires courage, the ability to take a risk, the readiness even to accept pain and disappointment. Whoever insists on safety and security as primary conditions of life cannot have faith; whoever shuts himself off in a system of defense, where distance and possession are his means of security, makes himself a prisoner. To be loved, and to love, need courage, the courage to judge certain values as of ultimate concern – and to take the jump and to stake everything on these values.

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.

A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.

The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more work on safety. That shouldn't happen.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

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

He that would speak the truth must have one foot in the stirrup.

Security is for cadavers.

More than any other people on Earth, we bear burdens and accept risks unprecedented in their size and their duration, not for ourselves alone but for all who wish to be free.

If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

To live in freedom one must grow used to a life full of agitation, change and danger.

Those with less of a sense of service to the nation never understand it when men and women of character step forward to look danger and adversity straight in the eye, refusing to blink, or give ground, even to their own deaths. The protected can't begin to understand the price paid so they and their families can sleep safe and free at night.

We cannot sacrifice our humanity in the name of security - or we risk losing both.

The sacrifice of the brave men and women of the military and their families allows us to be safe, and we are grateful.

There's something very comforting in the fact that you're given this reminder that whatever it is, whatever situation you find yourself in, there are these people that will run into the danger to keep you safe.

People say they want to be in risky environments and do all kinds of exciting stuff. But they don't actually know what risk means: that risk actually does bring failure and mistakes.

Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.