Famous quotes containing the words security, rule and/or apply:
“Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.”
—James Madison (17511836)
“The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessed no other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,Will it bake bread?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“To cook a pig, apply heat; to win a lawsuit, apply money.”
—Chinese proverb.
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