Thomas Carlyle Quotes

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

The core functions of government are negative—putting out fires, arresting criminals, settling disputes—and much more of what government does is the unromantic work of preventing bad situations from getting worse.

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

Nanny states are interested in social order. Daddy states are interested in public order.

Law and order in our communities doesn't arise spontaneously.

Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.

Secretary Clinton doesn't want to use a couple of words, and that's law and order. And we need law and order. If we don't have it, we're not going to have a country.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

Thru the auspices of the viewers who become - I think this is an import - in a democracy, become a working unit with law enforcement against the criminals.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Order is said to exist where the people of the country have, as a general rule, ceased to prosecute their quarrels by private force, and acquired the habit of referring the decision of their disputes and the redress of their injuries to the public authorities.

We are incapable of maintaining peace and order and to enforce the law with the resources we have.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

About 10,000 years ago, the winners of wars began incorporating the losers into larger societies. The victors found that the only way to make these larger societies work was by developing stronger governments; and one of the first things these governments had to do, if they wanted to stay in power, was suppress violence among their subjects.

Without the punishment of the Death by a Thousand Cuts, I am afraid people in China would have nothing to fear … and before long there would be more and more criminals, and it would be hard to ensure peace and stability.

Law and order is a state responsibility. I can assure you peace will be maintained in Uttar Pradesh.

As people, we have to take the law's side. We have to stand behind the police, not behind the criminal.

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud.

There can be no prosperity without law and order.

But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you.

When I say, 'I am supporting the police or the army,' I am talking about the army in general and the police in general. In general, those institutions are good institutions.

I'm a deputy sheriff.