The first duty of government is to protect the powerless…

Every moment is a moment of choice-to feel powerless or powerful.

— Diana Loomans

Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final…

— Frederick Buechner

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

— Molly Ivins

I have long believed that the first duty of government is to protect the safety of our citizens.

— William Barr

Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections…

— Ludwig von Mises

The first duty of any government is to protect its citizens, whether the threat is a domestic one or from abroad.

— Amber Rudd

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.

— Brad Henry

We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the…

— George Lincoln Rockwell

The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in…

— Richard Viguerie

As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of…

— Thomas Paine

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

— Blaine Lee

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

— Anonymous

The country was founded on the principle that primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.

— Anonymous

No more essential duty of government exists than the protection of the lives of its people. Fail in this, and we fail in everything.

— Francis T Murphy

It's the duty of any government: where there is disregard of the law, that law and order must be instituted.

— Emmerson Mnangagwa