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According to Benjamin Franklin, who are the parents of security?

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By Scott Berinato

July 01, 2004 — CSO — 1. According to Benjamin Franklin, who are the parents of security?

a. Brawn and Brains

b. Distrust and Caution

c. Might and Right

d. The Cannon and the Cannon Ball

2. According to Thomas Fuller, security is the mother of _____ and the grandmother of _____?

a. Invention and War

b. Oppression and Lies

c. Opportunity and Crisis

d. Danger and Destruction

3. John Fitzgerald Kennedy said, "Our growing _____, our increasing lack of _____, is a menace to our security."

4. According to Dwight D. Eisenhower, if you want total security, where should you go?

a. Soviet Russia

b. Camp David c. Prison

d. The middle of the Pacific

e. Canada

5. According to industrial security analyst Lawrence Lief, those you trust the most can do what?

a. Trust you the most b. Protect you best

c. Keep you honest d. Steal the most

6. What did Demosthenes prescribe for the security of democracies against despots?

a. Suspicion b. Education

c. Elections d. Armaments

For questions 7 through 11: Match the quote to the person who said it.

7. "Security is a kind of death."

8. "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature."

9. "There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity."

10. "There is no security in life, only opportunity."

11. "Most people want security in this world, not liberty."

a. Mark Twain b. Helen Keller

c. H.L. Mencken d. Tennessee Williams

e. Douglas MacArthur

12. True or False: Henry Kissinger said, "Clearly, security without values is like a ship without a rudder."

13. Who said, "Values without security are like a rudder without a ship."

a. Jimmy Carter b. Margaret Thatcher

c. Henry Kissinger d. Herbert Hoover

BONUS QUESTION: How many times does the word security appear in the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights?

How'd You Do?

0-5 correct: "...get wisdom and with all thy getting get understanding."

6-11 correct: "...men capable of wisdom...become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while."

12-14 correct: "Great wisdom may resemble foolishness."

Answers: 1. b, 2. d, 3. softness, physical fitness, 4. c (He continued: "There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking...is freedom."), 5. d, 6. A, 7. D, 8. B (She continued: "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."), 9. E, 10. A, 11. C, 12. True, 13. c, Bonus Question: Once, in the second Amendment ("A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.")