Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller, 1880 - 1968
Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you.
- Mae West, 1892 - 1980
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
- Eddie Rickenbacker, 1890 - 1973

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
- William Congreve, 1670 - 1729
The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.
- William O. Douglas, 1898 - 1980
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.
- Germaine Greer

On this day in 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. Perhaps I'm too cynical, but somehow I've never expected this was going to pay off for my generation. I'm not alone. None of the quotes in the database suggest that a government program is likely to be a source of security, nor is anything else for that matter.