Charles Krauthammer Quotes

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

Being home secretary involves having to face some of the worst of human behaviour and challenges of modern society.

With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety.

Boston is safe. And we're going to keep it safe.

As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.

Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety.

Nanny states are interested in social order. Daddy states are interested in public order.

The occupant should take all due and needful measures to restore and ensure public order and public safety.

If I do nothing else, I'm going to make this a safe state.

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

The security and welfare of the people of Egypt have reached a point that the drapers, moneychangers and jewellers do not even lock their shops - they only lower a net across the front, and no one tampers with anything

We have to maintain inviolate the great doctrine of the inherent right of popular self-government; to reconcile the largest liberty of the individual citizen with complete security of the public order; to render cheerful obedience to the laws of the land, to unite in enforcing their execution, and to frown indignantly on all combinations to resist them; to harmonize a sincere and ardent devotion to the institutions of religious faith with the most universal religious toleration; to preserve the rights of all by causing each to respect those of the other; to carry forward every social improvement to the uttermost limit of human perfectibility

It doesn’t keep us safe and it doesn’t keep us free if we give up our liberties to the government.

The free circulation of citizens, which is sacrosanct, cannot become the free circulation of criminals.

The people are frightened. When they are frightened, they are much more willing to give us their liberties. But giving up their liberties won't make them safer, that's the real sad part of it.

We are much safer in the United States, but not yet safe.

During my time at DEA, I saw how marijuana prohibition has done absolutely nothing to make Americans safer or healthier. It has only served to destroy millions of innocent lives, erode civil liberties, perpetuate a growing prison-industrial complex, and enrich and strengthen the most violent criminal organizations.

Law and order in our communities doesn't arise spontaneously.

As the mayor of London, my highest priority is keeping Londoners and visitors to our city safe from harm.

I think our police do an excellent job, day in and day out, working to keep us safe.

I'm the British home secretary. My job is to protect the British public.

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.

My job as Home Secretary is to keep families and communities across our country safe.

Safety and security are the most basic job of government. I understand that - both as a mayor who works every day to secure public safety and reduce crime, and also as someone who deployed in uniform to Afghanistan because I believed joining the military was part of my duty to help keep my country safe.