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Quotes About Protection

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
~ George W. Bush
I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.
~ Oliver Cromwell
Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
~ Gale Norton
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
A heavily armed citizenry is not about overthrowing the government; it is about preventing the government from overthrowing liberty.
~ Lawrence Hunter
As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.
~ Stewart Dalzell
Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
The safety of the State is the highest law.
~ Justinian
A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
~ Thomas Sowell
The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per cent.
~ Joseph Sobran
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
~ John Foster Dulles
The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies.
~ Noam Chomsky
I don't think any government has the means to protect us from the world reality.
~ Jean Lapierre
To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.
~ Samuel Johnson
An individual citizen cannot protect himself from the powers of large corporations or external governments. It is the responsibility of the government to protect its citizens.
~ Wangari Maathai
The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted.
~ Henry Steele Commager
There are over 100 entities in the federal government that have something to do with homeland security.
~ Andrew Card
The tax that is taken from the free non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim government whereby they ratify the compact that assures them protection, as though it were compensation for not being slain.
~ Edward William Lane
You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.
~ Lemn Sissay
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to... bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
~ Hugo Black
Most governments are designed to protect the government from the people, whereas the United States government was organized to protect the people from the government.
~ Jeff Cooper