„I am firmly persuaded that among nations, weakness will never be a foundation for security.“

„But the people of the Baltic nations also knew that freedom needs a foundation of security.“

—  Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961

2014, Remarks to the People of Estonia (September 2014)

„I am persuaded to believe that God had left nations to the liberty of setting up such governments as best pleased themselves, and that magistrates were set up for the good of nations, not nations for the honor and glory of magistrates.“

—  Algernon Sidney British politician and political theorist 1623 - 1683

Scaffold speech (1683)
Контексте: I am persuaded to believe that God had left nations to the liberty of setting up such governments as best pleased themselves, and that magistrates were set up for the good of nations, not nations for the honor and glory of magistrates. That the right and power of magistrates in every country was that which the laws of that country made it to be. That these laws are to be observed and the oaths taken by rulers to be kept. And that having the force of contracts between magistrates and people, they cannot be violated without danger of dissolving the whole fabric.

„I will not be tamed, only persuaded. I will not be coerced or led blindly or tricked or bullied - I am willing only to be convinced. If you don't trust your own basic goodness enough to tell me what you're trying to do… Then you're confessing your own moral weakness and I'll never serve you.“

—  Orson Scott Card American science fiction novelist 1951

Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)

„If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus'd among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security.“

—  Samuel Adams American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and political philosopher 1722 - 1803

Letter to James Warren (12 February 1779)

„I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.“

—  Milan Kundera, книга Невыносимая лёгкость бытия

Источник: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

„If we do not secure the foundation, we cannot secure the edifice.“

—  Blaise Pascal French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher 1623 - 1662

The Art of Persuasion

„The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the Constitution than protect our nation’s security.“

—  Jeff Sessions Former United States Attorney General 1946

Said in a derogatory tone on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Monday, 17 December 2007 http://unamericanrevolution.com/policy/betrayal-of-the-american-conscience/ http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/C?r110:./temp/~r110JlvtMq

„I am weak and therefore I am strong.“

—  Bing Xin Chinese writer 1900 - 1999

As quoted in Haiping Yan's Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905–1948 (New York: Routledge, 2006), p. 8

„Clear and decisive leadership is crucial and we shall deliver it. It is urgent that we work on projecting our party firmly and decisively with the purpose of securing our nation’s interests through Brexit and beyond.“

—  Margot Parker UK politician 1943

We Need To Unite To Fight For A Clean Brexit http://www.ukip.org/margot_parker_we_need_to_unite_to_fight_for_a_clean_brexit (November 9, 2017)

„I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.“

—  Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States of America 1743 - 1826

„I am not as these are, the poet saith
In youth's pride, and the painter, among men
At bay, where never pencil comes nor pem“

—  Dante Gabriel Rossetti English poet, illustrator, painter and translator 1828 - 1882

from Not As These in The House of Life 1870 kindle ebook ASIN B0082R81E8

„Here I am, trying to persuade myself that I always give the best of myself, and nature is telling me exactly the opposite: anyone truly committed to life never stops walking.“

—  Paulo Coelho, книга Aleph

Aleph (2011)

„I am up to date only sporadically. I live firmly in the world of art, where reality and fantasy are one.“

—  Fritz Leiber, книга Our Lady of Darkness

Источник: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 16 (p. 89)

„National unity is the basis of national security.“

—  Felix Frankfurter American judge 1882 - 1965

Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 310 U.S. 586 (1940).
Judicial opinions
Контексте: National unity is the basis of national security. To deny the legislature the right to select appropriate means for its attainment presents a totally different order of problem from that of the propriety of subordinating the possible ugliness of littered streets to the free expression opinion through handbills.

„It was the last weakness he meant to indulge in; and a man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.“

—  George Eliot, книга Adam Bede

Adam Bede (1859)

„I am responsible for everything … except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being.“

—  Jean Paul Sartre, книга Being and Nothingness

Part 4, Chapter 1, III
Being and Nothingness (1943)
Контексте: I am responsible for everything … except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world … in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

„He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.“

—  James Russell Lowell American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819 - 1891

Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890)

„The NFP firmly believes that a society has to be created where all people irrespective of race feel peaceful and secure.“

—  Pratap Singh Fijian politician

Fiji Day address, 10 October 2005

„A nation that fails to take pride in its past achievements or to take inspiration therefrom, can never build up the present or plan for the future. A weak nation can never attain greatness.“

—  Syama Prasad Mookerjee Indian politician 1901 - 1953

Dr. Shyama Prasad Mookerjee Quoted from Talreja, K. M. (2000). Holy Vedas and holy Bible: A comparative study. New Delhi: Rashtriya Chetana Sangathan.