Adequate Quote by Lester B. Pearson

The state has a duty to protect all its citizens.

— Deeyah Khan

Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“PROPER ROLE OF THE STATE I believe that the proper role of the state is negative, not positive; defensive, not aggressive. It is to…

— G. Edward Griffin

“Whenever I have to safeguard my State, its institutions' stature and the right of the people, for that I will avoid and even ignore…

— Ehsan Sehgal

The United States always maintains the right to self-defense.

— Robert C. O'Brien

Every state protects the privileges of the powerful.

— Colin Ward

Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of…

— Robert Nozick

Self-defense is not only our right; it is our duty.

— Ronald Reagan

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to…

— Thomas Jefferson

Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

— Benjamin Tucker

The State is said by some to be a necessary evil; it must be made unnecessary.

— Benjamin Tucker