Adequate Quote by John Dickinson

It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security…

— Alexander Hamilton

The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through those acts…

— Judith Butler

“security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us,…

— Thomas Paine

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

— William Proxmire

To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that…

— Michael Parenti

The true principle of government is this - make the system compleat in its structure; give a perfect proportion and balance to its parts;…

— Alexander Hamilton

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious…

— Douglas MacArthur

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent…

— John C. Calhoun

So far as this has gone, I am satisfied to see a spirit prevailing that promises to send the system out free from those…

— Richard Henry Lee

It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.

— Ron Paul

The property of power is to protect.

— Blaise Pascal