Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Thomas Jefferson

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Thomas Jefferson

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
Maya Angelou

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln

He that's secure is not safe.
Benjamin Franklin

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F. Kennedy

Music is a safe kind of high.
Jimi Hendrix

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
Martin Luther

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
Jane Austen

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
George Orwell

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.
Soren Kierkegaard

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
James Madison

The coward only threatens when he is safe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
George Bernard Shaw

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
Robert Collier

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass

My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe.
Emo Philips

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Rabindranath Tagore

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
H. L. Mencken