National Security Act

National Security Act can refer to

  • National Security Act (India), law to provide for preventive detention
  • National Security Act (South Korea), regarding seditious activities
  • National Security Act of 1947, a United States law that established the Central Intelligence Agency


Famous quotes containing the words national, security and/or act:

    “Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!”
    —Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)

    “It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it ... and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied ... and it is all one.”
    —M.F.K. Fisher (b. 1908)

    “I am the only actor.
    It is difficult for one woman
    to act out a whole play.
    The play is my life,
    my solo act.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)