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The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens. -- Arlen Specter
The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire. -- Joseph Sobran
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
The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people. -- William J. Clinton
The purpose of government is for those who run it to plunder those who do not. -- Thomas DiLorenzo
The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all. -- Thomas Jefferson
Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property. -- Ibrahim Babangida
I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired. -- Aminu Kano
The sheer number of government employees and welfare recipients effectively transforms the purpose of government from maintaining order to confiscating as much as possible from vulnerable taxpayers. -- James Bovard
The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors. -- Thomas Jefferson
I have always felt that the real purpose of government is to enhance the lives of people and that a leader can best do that by restraining government in most cases instead of enlarging it at every opportunity. -- Gerald R. Ford
The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors are invested with power to that end. And the greatest good of the people is liberty. It is to the state what health is to the individual. -- Denis Diderot
Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposite is true: that the primary purpose of government is to protect those who run the economy from the outrage of injured citizens. -- Derrick Jensen
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
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. -- William Henry Harrison
The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that. -- Shirin Ebadi
Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application. -- William Weld
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. -- Andrew Jackson
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. -- William Henry Harrison
Freedom of the news media must be subordinated to the overriding needs of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government. -- Lee Kuan Yew
If your basic premise about the fundamental purpose of our government is that it must provide for the common defense, then no other position is possible. -- Don Nickles
The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations, -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years. -- Neal Boortz
During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the specific purpose of developing new aircraft lines. -- Norm Dicks
One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection. -- Nassau William Senior
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. -- William Henry Harrison
The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not. -- Neal Boortz
The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves; they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other purposes than these should not be answered. -- Thomas Jefferson
The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated. -- William E. Simon
Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people. -- Nelson A. Miles
The whole purpose of maintaining your power in government is to make sure that you stay in government. You stay in government by finding out who is liable to be against you. To do that, you try and put your finger into every single pie that is available to you. -- David Lloyd
The Founding Father expressed in words for all to read the ideal of Government based upon the dignity of the individual. That ideal previously had existed only in the hearts and minds of men. They produced the timeless documents upon which the Nation is rounded and has grown great. They, recognizing God as the author of individual fights, declared that the purpose of Government is to secure those rights. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
The purpose of a just government is to prevent plunder, not facilitate it. -- Glenn Beck
Government should not tell you what to do unless there's a compelling public purpose. -- Michael Bloomberg
The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something. -- Alan Greenspan
I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose, -- Edward Snowden
The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information. -- William O. Douglas
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. -- Ayn Rand
If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy. -- Edmund Burke
The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient. -- Edward Abbey
A certain amount of taxes is of course indispensable to carry on essential government functions. Reasonable taxes for this purpose need not hurt production much. -- Henry Hazlitt
University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling. -- Francis Cornford

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