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I never thought I'd hear myself say it, but safety first!
Sep 10, 2025
When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built a plane.
"Safety First" is "Safety Always."
The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth He joins the church and ends the quest of truth.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Everything is un-American that tends either to government by a plutocracy or government by a mob. To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American. All privileges based on wealth, and all enmity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American-both of them equally so. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
To suppose that safety-first consists in having a small gamble in a large number of different companies where I have no information to reach a good judgment, as compared with a substantial stake in a company where one's information is adequate, strikes me as a travesty of investment policy.
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
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