Public order is a fragile thing, and if you don't fix the first broken window, soon all the … - James Q. Wilson

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To create the protection for the corporations, government is actually growing bigger than ever before, in every part of the world. Yet its growing extremely thin as a protector of people.

James Q. Wilson

Public order is a fragile thing, and if you don't fix the first broken window, soon all the windows will be broken.

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We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment. . . [it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for the scientific method, made man the measure of all things, and placed individual consent front and center on the political stage.

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But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government

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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

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I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care

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I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country's laws can overcome all private fear, resentment, solicitation, and even pity it self. Whatever passion enters into a sentence or decision, so far will there be in it a tincture of injustice. In short, justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind, that we may suppose her thoughts are wholly intent on the equity of a cause, without being diverted or prejudiced by objects foreign to it.

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