Only Labour is in a position to protect individual rights…

The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ...…

— Ayn Rand

As the guardian of our rights, the Supreme Court makes decisions every year which either protect the individual or leave him at the mercy…

— Herb Kohl

The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft,…

— Henry Hazlitt

I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a…

— Albert Einstein

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

You don't protect any of your individual liberties by lying down and going to sleep.

— John T. Scopes

“I believe that the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and to make it possible for him to develop…

— Walter Isaacson

“Does the difference matter? someone else asked. Does it matter whether the law seeks to protect you because you are an individual or because…

— Philippe Sands

“Despite their common origins, and the shared desire for an effective approach, Lauterpacht and Lemkin were sharply divided as to the solutions they proposed…

— Philippe Sands

Jeremy Corbyn is a principled Labour man.

— Sadiq Khan

“As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty,…

— Matthew Woodring Stover

The U.N.'s driving mission is to accumulate power at the expense of the sovereignity of individual nations and fundamental individual rights, and its gun-ban…

— Wayne LaPierre

Trump is more conservative on individual rights, domestic issues, economic issues and defense. On the other hand, Clinton is quite liberal and wishes to…

— Fabrizio Moreira

Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms…

— Pierre Trudeau