Catherine the Great Quotes

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

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

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

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

The more developed a nation is, the more complete is the independence of the individual, and the safer the individual from encroachments by another.

The Equality of the Citizens consists in this; that they should all be subject to the same Laws.

Man shall be judged by his Peers and Equals. For when the Fate of a Citizen is in Question, all Prejudices arising from the Difference of Rank or Fortune should be stifled; because they ought to have no Influence between the Judges and the Parties accused.

It should never be forgotten that protection to property and to persons cannot be separated.

The protection of the writ of Habeas Corpus is denied married women in every State of this Union, notwithstanding the Constitution of the United States declares it shall not be suspended except when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety demands it.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

Equal laws protecting equal rights ... the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.

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

Liberty is the Right of doing whatsoever the Laws allow

I desire to secure every privilege and every right to every citizen in the United States…. I understand the amendment ... to authorize Congress to establish uniform laws throughout the United States upon the subject named, the protection of life, liberty, and property. I am unwilling that Congress shall have any such power

I know no human being exempt from the law. The law is the security of the people of England; it is the security of every person that is governed, and of every person that governs.

The Dutch public has always been accustomed to being treated according to the letter of the law.

The state has a duty to protect all its citizens.

The major thing of our government is to protect the people.

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.

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 object of government is the protection of person, property, and reputation from the foes which assail them. Government may do other things: it may carry the mails, run the express, own and operate the railroads; but its fundamental function is to furnish protection from open violence or secret fraud. If it adequately protects person, property, and reputation, it is a just government, though it do nothing else; if it fails to protect these primary rights, if the person is left to defend himself, his property, his reputation by his own strong arm, there is no government.

If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.

What security have you for your own safety if every man of vile temper, of low instincts, of base purpose, can find in his own heart a higher law than that which is the rule of society, the Constitution, and the Bible? These higher-law preachers should be tarred and feathered, and whipped by those they have thus instigated. This, my friends, is what was called in good old revolutionary times, Lynch Law. It is sometimes the very best law, because it deals summary justice upon those who would otherwise escape from all other kinds of punishment.

The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.