Careful Words

security (n.)

  Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.

William Pitt, Earl Of Chatham (1708-1778): Letter to the Earl of Shelburne, Sept. 29, 1770.

  Private credit is wealth; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.

Letters of Junius. Letter xlii. Affair of the Falkland Islands.