Edwin Meese Quotes

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.

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.

Being a reporter is at the very core of a democracy, being a free person in a free society.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

A modern democracy cannot allow its citizens to be exonerated

The duty to disclose knowledge of crime rests upon all citizens.

As in the days of Edward I, the citizenry may be called upon to enforce the justice of the state, not faintly and with lagging steps but honestly and bravely and with whatever implements and facilities are convenient and at hand.

The government cannot enforce its mountain of laws and regulations without voluntary compliance.

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

... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.

It is our social responsibility as citizens of India to help fulfil Gandhiji's vision of Clean India, by his 150th birth anniversary in 2019.

I ask of each Mason, of each member, of each brother, that he shall remember ever that there is upon him a peculiar obligation to show himself in every respect a good citizen; for after all, the way he can best do his duty by the ancient order to which he belongs is by reflecting credit upon that order by way in which he performs his duty as a citizen of the United States.

United States could be a great country. It needs to be a great country. It's our responsibility as citizens to make that happen, every single one of us.

Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'

Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a free and peaceful society--but the educated citizen has a special responsibility by the virtue of his greater understanding. For whether he has ever studied history or current events, ethics or civics, the rules of a profession or the tools of a trade, he knows that only a respect for the law makes it possible for free men to dwell together in peace and progress.

I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.

I think our duty as American citizens is to be involved and engaged in anything that affects us. As an artist, I have to use my platform, and as a dad, a brother, and a black man, I have to be as socially woke and present as possible.

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

It is not in violence and crime that our greatest danger lies. These evils are so perfectly apparent that they very quickly arouse the moral power of the people for their suppression. A far more serious danger lurks in the shirking of those responsibilities of citizenship, where the evil may not be so noticeable but is more insidious and likely to be more devastating.

Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency.

I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.

The administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.