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“No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.”

Nations Duty Ought Police Navy

Book:Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris

Source: Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris

“Gays have become colossal bores. Once interesting and iconoclastic, all they seem to crave nowadays is the State's pension and seal of approval. They ought to go back to the days of the Stonewall Riots, when the police's violations of privacy and private property were the object of their anger and activism.”

States Seems Interesting Objects Ought Gay Police Property Activism Privacy Approval Bores Crave Violation Riot Seals Private Property Pension Colossal

Author:Ilana Mercer

“It was better walk with dignity than ride in shame. A lot of people in Cincinnati are saying, "Rather than have the continual problems of police brutality and economic disparity, I'm willing to make some sacrifices." And I think that they ought to be respected for doing that.”

People Thinking Problem Walks Sacrifice Economic Willing Ought Dignity Police Shame Police Brutality Brutality Disparity

Author:Al Sharpton

“You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer.”

Has Beens Said Seems Subjects Ought Taste Police Patience Horrible Officers Detectives Discussing Police Officer

Book:Lady Audley's Secret

Source: Lady Audley's Secret

“Police ought to protect communities as well as individuals.... Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply treating illness, so the police - and the rest of us - ought to recognize the importance of maintaining, intact, communities without broken windows.”

Wells Individual Community Broken Ought Protect Window Importance Police Illness Physicians Maintaining Fostering Broken Windows

Book:On Character: Essays

Source: On Character: Essays

“We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action.”

Action Loss Ought Police Investigation Transparent

Author:Mike Pence

“If the seminary is too large, it ought to be divided into smaller communities with formators who are equipped really to accompany those in their charge. Dialogue must be serious, without fear, sincere. It is important to recall that the language of young people in formation today is different from that in the past: we are living through an epochal change. Formation is a work of art, not a police action. We must form their hearts. Otherwise we are creating little monsters. And then these little monsters mold the People of God. This really gives me goose bumps.”

“Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city does not mean America is free, as complacent liberals might think, much less too free, as conservatives often suggest. Just because most dissidents are left alone doesn't mean there is no police state, for that would be convenient indeed for the police statists: the idea that people ought not complain so long as they have the right to do so.”

“We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.”

Believe Government Running School Force Ought Police Police Force

Author:William Howard Taft