State Duty Quotes

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

The first duty of any government is to protect its citizens, whether the threat is a domestic one or from abroad.

I have always enjoyed keeping. I used to keep earlier for my state and later didn't have much chance to keep. But I keep myself ready if ever anyone wants me to keep.

Government's first responsibility is the safety of its citizens.

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.

If you allow immigrants into your country, then you're responsible for them.

You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it - the population would be horrified.

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.

There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.

I am profoundly disturbed by any attempt to take government responsibility away from government … it is government’s responsibility to educate all of our children …. The fundamental responsibility for poverty of this country does not belong to the churches; it belongs to the government.

The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions.

Governments, however, must think not only of the present, but of the rights of future generations.

Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the level of the murderer, and treating him as he treated others? The forfeiture of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict it on another, even when backed by legal process.

The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.

I believe, Sir, that it is the right and the duty of the State to provide means of education for the common people. This proposition seems to me to be implied in every definition that has ever yet been given of the functions of a government.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

Localities may be allowed to mismanage their own interests, but not to prejudice those of others, nor violate those principles of justice between one person and another of which it is the duty of the State to maintain the rigid observance.

The government needs to defend its people, to take necessary actions even if they are extremely painful and tragic.

The first responsibility of the state is to guarantee the safety of the people.

My nature is to compromise and get things done for the state.

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

The second office of the government is honorable & easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

It is the responsibility of the government to ensure the House functions.