To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

We don’t want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don’t get hit very often.

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that’s a violation of basic human rights.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason – to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

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.

People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn’t be prey to the employers who say, ‚We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.‘

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

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

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

Many financial advisors recommend that you diversify for your own protection. What they fail to tell you is that it is also for their protection. Since most financial advisors cannot tell you exactly which stock or mutual fund is a great investment, they tell you to buy a bunch of them.

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

I vote and I do jury duty.

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.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don’t consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

Our nation must come together to unite.

We’ve protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there’s no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

If someone attacks me, and they want to punch or kick me, I can just run away. They’re not holding onto me. I can get away from them.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.