Wangari Maathai Quotes

Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.

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

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

Our protest has one aim: to guarantee security for all citizens. Doctors as citizens are more vulnerable to terrorist attacks. We are not politicizing the issue. We are just drawing the government's attention to its primary duty. It should protect the lives of the citizens.

It is the obligation of every government to yield protection to their citizens as the consideration for their obedience

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently from the barbaric business of guarding them to enable him to engage in gentler, more dignified, and more agreeable undertakings.

The government should always be the one defending civil liberties.

And I hear from time to time people say, hey, wait a second, we have civil liberties we have to worry about. But don't forget the most important civil liberty I expect from my government is my right to be kept alive, and that's what we're going to have to do.

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

I stand today on this floor to appeal for protection from the strong arm of the government for her loyal children, irrespective of color and race, who are citizens of the southern states, and particularly of the State of Georgia.

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.

We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

Government's first responsibility is the safety of its citizens.

… nearly universal is a never-ending effort to balance the rights of individuals with the needs that, in the modern world, it seems only government can meet.

I have long believed that the first duty of government is to protect the safety of our citizens.

As one of the principal responsibilities of the government is to safeguard its citizens, it is entirely reasonable that it should look at what more might be done to improve security.

There's one job of government and that's to protect its citizens and protect those in law enforcement.

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 important thing, which is to protect those who cannot protect themselves.

It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. These rights cannot well be separated.

That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression.

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

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.