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"It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual."
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"We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature."

"Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to."

"I get that Christmas is generally schmaltzy. I understand that it is used as a cynical cash grab. I know how far it is from what Jesus would have wanted. Nevertheless, I like that people put forth some effort to see one another during this season, that some people shake out of their commonplace anthood and toward sainthood."

"I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community."

"People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth."

"Community means engaging constructively with like-minded nations to build strong, sustaining institutions and alliances - and bringing emerging powers into this community so future conflict becomes less likely."

"Where they come in the perpetual spirit of giving - the house that love built."

"When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend's sisters,I was the kid in a grey hoodie, walking with the poets, the singers, the thinkers, and I was not alone."
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"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends."

"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government."

"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."

"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."

"He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn."

"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."

"It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong."
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