“When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person… there can be no liberty.”

Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.

There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.

The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.

You can’t expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.

The overall similarity is probably in the mentality of law enforcement officers. There’s a sense of wanting to really uphold a sense of morality and make sure that the laws are enforced to the letter, whenever possible.

When we start fighting crime by any means necessary we become guilty of the same hypocrisy as law enforcement agencies throughout history that break the rules to get the villains, and so become villains themselves.

The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.

Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac.

Remember no matter what color your skin is if you wear a law enforcement badge, you are automatically racists according to the deranged lawless leftists.

While Democrats in Congress have surrounded themselves with a wall with razor wire, the NG, and they demand security literally from federal law enforcement, they are going to take away police rights.

The world for our law enforcement community has changed dramatically: everything from filling out paperwork to relationships with the community and how they think the narrative is in the media.