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"Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics."

"Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law."

"My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad."

"The universal law is very simple, but we look at it in a complex way."

"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."

"What's law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law -- our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law. Do, and you'll find the rationalized interpretations, the legal casuistry, the precedents of convenience. You'll find the serenity, which is just another word for death."
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"The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think."

"If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old."

"Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality."
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