The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
I have long believed that the first duty of government is to protect the safety of our citizens. — William Barr Copy Share Image
The first duty of any government is to protect its citizens, whether the threat is a domestic one or from abroad. — Amber Rudd Copy Share Image
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
It's the duty of any government: where there is disregard of the law, that law and order must be instituted. — Emmerson Mnangagwa Copy Share Image
Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties. — Theresa May Copy Share Image
The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business,… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
No more essential duty of government exists than the protection of the lives of its people. Fail in this, and we fail… — Francis T Murphy Copy Share Image
The first duty of government is to ensure its citizens are protected, but ID cards could never have done that. They would… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
“The duty of the people is to tend to their own affairs. The duty of government is to help them do it.… — Robert Crichton Copy Share Image
It is the imperative and indispensable duty of the Government of the United States to secure to every resident inhabitant the free… — James Buchanan Copy Share Image
I can't possibly put myself in his [Tony Blair's] shoes and be inside his head but what I can say is that… — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
“Increasing numbers of Americans are subscribing to the myth that you can get something for nothing—as long as the government is footing… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It is the duty of the government to guarantee maximum security, and this is not an easy task. — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government — John Prescott Copy Share Image
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy -… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Even though the party or ideology of government is important, after the formation of the government it's the duty of the government… — Uddhav Thackeray Copy Share Image
I believe deeply that the first duty of government is providing for the personal security of its citizens. Therefore I would naturally… — William Barr Copy Share Image
It is a duty for any government to uphold the rule of law, and this sometimes requires the proportionate use of force. — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil… — Richard Viguerie Copy Share Image
The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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