False Security Quotes

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.

He who builds on the people, builds on the mud

Nothing is so treacherous as the obvious.

To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.

Athletes are used to battling. The public would never learn their names if professional athletes had not shown courage at an early age. They learn they can overcome, but sometimes this becomes a false sense of security that leads them to the edge.

The reality is that we can no longer sleep soundly at night thinking that if we keep the terrorists 'out there,' we are safe inside our homes and offices. That illusion is gone.

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

Put not your trust and confidence in kings and princes.

The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.

Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.

The way to feel safe is never to feel secure.

You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now.

If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag, sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of July speakers - normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free, Americans who have been lulled away into a false security.

Success is a lousy teacher.

The worst sense of security is a false one. It's hard for people to wrap their heads around the idea that those in charge - federal, state and local agencies - might be cheating the system. But, all too often, that is exactly what happens.

If you think you're doing everything right, then you have a tendency to stand pat.

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.

It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in the church foyer with another equally uninformed believer, but when that happens you are vulnerable to the attack of the deceiver.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil, Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess

Dangerous he who thinks it safe to die!