Deeyah Khan Quotes

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

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

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.

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

Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what your government is doing to you.

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

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.

No government has a legitimate right to do what is not for the welfare of the governed.

The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State.

The fact of the matter is that the government is there to protect the people.

The basic social contract is that citizens agree to follow the law, pay their taxes, and devote their love and loyalty to their country, and in exchange, the nation commits to preserve and protect and serve their interests, safeguard their freedom, and return to them in kind their first allegiance and loyalty.

Our Constitution gave us rights as citizens of a free democratic nation, but also placed on us the responsibility to always adhere to the central tenets of our democracy - justice, liberty, equality and fraternity.

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

The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master.... One of the duties of the State is that of caring for those of its citizens who find themselves the victims of such adverse circumstances as makes them unable to obtain even the necessities for mere existence without the aid of others.... To these unfortunate citizens aid must be extended by government--not as a matter of charity but as a matter of social duty.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed.

'We, The People' is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.

I believe the relationship you have with your government is not so different to a love relationship.

We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.

No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.

Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.