The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it.
Safe is the land, insecure the sea, greedy the profit
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.