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 government is to protect the powerless from the powerful. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves. — Ron Paul 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 primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor. — James Madison Copy Share Image
“The key ingredient that is missing is a government that will protect the priorities of Heaven and the presence of God in… — Danny Silk 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
The country was founded on the principle that primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it… — Anonymous 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
I believe that the role of government is for the government to protect the God-given rights we have and to ensure that… — Dan Crenshaw 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
I believe that the primary role of the government is to protect people and not run their lives. You used to be… — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. The only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The role of the federal government is to protect our liberties. That means they should protect our religious liberties to do what… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
For 70 years there's been a consensus among scholars and the American people on a reading to the Constitution that protects the… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The most important obligation our government has is to protect American citizens, and for decades career politicians like Joe Donnelly in Washington… — Mike Braun Copy Share Image
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Power must be in the hands of the wealth of the nation, those who have sympathy for property owners and their rights,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“waned. Efforts to protect civilian life fell by the wayside and a fourth and final grim phase of nuclear reality settled over… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
“I wonder of what you must daily endure in America, having no government to protect you, no one to tell you what… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man is responsible for defending every woman and every child. When the male no longer takes this role, when he no… — James Williams Copy Share Image
“The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's one job of government and that's to protect its citizens and protect those in law enforcement. — Dagen McDowell Copy Share Image
The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You do not need the government to protect open internet; the marketplace was doing it and will continue to do it. All… — Joe Barton Copy Share Image
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. — Milton Friedman 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
An individual citizen cannot protect himself from the powers of large corporations or external governments. It is the responsibility of the government… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Our nation was founded on the idea that protecting citizens' speech from the government would protect the people's right to govern themselves… — Bill Hagerty Copy Share Image
