Protect Quotes

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Ronald Reagan

Government, Ourselves, Gone

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

Government, Lives, Run

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand

Political, Away, Vote

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

Mind, Law, Rights

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
Susan B. Anthony

Woman, Stand, Taught

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
Ronald Reagan

Life, Child, Duty

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Anais Nin

Love, Age, Extent

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao Tzu

Power, End, Until

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
Barack Obama

Trust, Government, Job

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.
Ron Paul

Life, Work, Government

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Love, Two, Touch

The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
Ron Paul

Liberty, Moral, While

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
Mae West

Wants, Meet, Figure

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
Milton Friedman

Government, Problem, Consumer

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.
Will Smith

Less, Hide, Likable

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Government, Strong, Control

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
Ron Paul

Government, Society, Free

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.
Mitt Romney

Freedom, United, Plans

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics, Good, Free

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
Sun Tzu

Good, Thought, Country

The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.
Ron Paul

Liberty, While, Economic

And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.
Mitt Romney

Life, Marriage, Religion

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau

Love, Age, Extent

God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.
Billy Graham

God, Often, Potential

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.
James T. Walsh

Children, Innocent, Duty

If you've got a talent, protect it.
Jim Carrey

While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.
Randy Neugebauer

Forget, Country, Made

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace, Men, Justice

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.
Hillary Clinton

War, Courage, Brave

The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that.
Hillary Clinton

Government, Military, Taken

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