Charles Sumner Quotes

I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you.

The policeman isn't there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder.

Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.

Where there is law, and where there is government, there is security.

Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.

Liberty is security. Freedom is security.

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

The human heart is fickle, and therefore peace must, according to the words of the prophet, safeguarded by law and order.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Government does not exist to protect us from ourselves.

We are civil officers. We are men of peace. We are here to do justice to the Philippine people, and to secure to them the best government in our power. The people will retain such a measure of popular control as will be consistent with stability and the security of law, order and property.

We all have a fundamental right to live free from fear, free from crime, and free from disorder - but while we share that right, we also share the duty to secure it.

Many of the best parts of America's history would have been impossible without police. All the freedoms we enjoy - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear - sit on a foundation of public safety.

There cannot be prosperity without security.

Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.

The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud.

Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within.

There can be no prosperity without law and order.

Political progress will only take place if sufficient security exists.

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

Liberty comes only after security.

Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.