#danger

Any plan of administration which contemplates a concentrating of responsibility is open to the dangers which follow the creation of a bureaucracy. ↗

— Arthur Capper

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I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

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When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family. ↗

— Jung Chang

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There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve. ↗

— Dick Cheney

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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. ↗

— Lord Acton

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Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder. ↗

— Paul Valery

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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Danger breeds best on too much confidence. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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