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"In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue."
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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."
"So our virtuesLie in the interpretation of the time:And power, unto itself most commendable,Hath not a tomb so evident as a chairTo extol what it hath done.One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail."
"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."
"Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge."
"One kind deed is more beautiful than a thousand good intentions."
"Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty."
"Delay gratification is what will give us patience and long suffering."
"Train yourself by blessing those who treat you badly and you will take on the nature of God."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly."
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