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"In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue."
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"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."
"Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule."
"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."
"It is better to be kind than be impolite."
"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."
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"I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution."
"Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about."
"I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom."
"If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion."
"There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want."
"Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims."
"In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly."
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