Able Quote by Thomas Jefferson

And since our country's founding, we've tried to keep government's heavy hand out of our personal lives, while ensuring that we do the most…

— Joe Biden

Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection…

— Richard Burr

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

— Louis D. Brandeis

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

— Ron Paul

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

— Thomas Jefferson

If citizens wish to retain their liberty, they cannot assume that those who seek power over them are honest. Skepticism of government is one…

— James Bovard

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

Our goal is to reaffirm that government by the people, speaking through their elected representatives, is the best way to keep us free and…

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

It is the government's fundamental duty to ensure the security of every individual citizen.

— Charles Kennedy

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

— Arlen Specter

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.

— Brad Henry

We must vigilantly stand on guard within our own borders for human rights and fundamental freedoms which are our proud heritage…w e cannot take…

— John Diefenbaker