Areas Quote by Malcolm X

“Human rights and freedoms protect us against arbitrary government.”

— Jean Tirole

The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.

— Thomas Jefferson

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

— William Weld

“And those rights are not to be lightly infringed upon by government in any way. They’re explicitly protected by the Constitution from the government.…

— Thom Hartmann

“Those who speak of our rights as if they were privileges have as their objective the plunder of our property, and our eventual enslavement.”

— Joseph Befumo

It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

— Thomas Jefferson

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

— Ronald Reagan

We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed…

— Susan B. Anthony

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

— William Weld

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

— Ron Paul

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

— Walter E. Williams

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even…

— Gustav Heinemann