Safety

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The average man doesn't want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.

H.L. Mencken

Notes on Democracy

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Topic

Downsides of freedom Freedom vs. safety Safety

Author

H.L. Mencken

Source

Notes on Democracy

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Mencken, H. L. Notes on Democracy. Alfred A. Knopf, 1926, pt. 3, ch. 1.

Any port in a storm.

John Cleland

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Topic

Safety

Author

John Cleland

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1748 1740s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Cleland, John. Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. London: G. Fenton, 1748-1749.

Current Citation

Cleland, John. Fanny Hill or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. Modern Library, 2001.

Lovely it is, when the winds are churning up the waves on the great sea, to gaze out from the land on the great efforts of someone else; not because it's an enjoyable pleasure that somebody is in difficulties, but because it's lovely to realize what troubles you are yourself spared.

Lucretius Carus

De Rerum Natura

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Topic

Ocean and sea Safety

Author

Lucretius Carus

Source

De Rerum Natura

Medium

Poem

Genre

Philosophical literature Didactic poem

Language

Latin

Time

55 BC 50s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 2, l. 1.

Current Citation

Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 2, l. 1.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 1

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Topic

Danger Safety

Speaker

Hotspur

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Henry IV, Part 1

Medium

Play

Genre

History (play)

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1597 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Henry IV, Part 1. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1597, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 3.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The First Part of Henry the Fourth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.