Famous quotes containing the words safety, answering and/or point:
“The Declaration [of Independence] was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of government, to secure the rights of individuals and to effect their safety and happiness. In modern society, no individual can do this alone. So government is not a necessary evil but a necessary good.”
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.”
—HonorĂ© De Balzac (17991850)
“No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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