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«Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.»
Author: Byron R. White
| About:
Crime,
Police
| Keywords:
apprehended, deadly, officer, Others The, poses
«To violate the law is the same crime in the emperor as in the subject»
«We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor,»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Crime
| Keywords:
artifice, artifices, crimes, deceit, distinctions, endear, endeared, endearing, endears, gradual, of our own, palliate, palliated, palliating, self-deceit, shocked, wickedness
«Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.»
Author: Senator John Kerry
(Senator)
| About:
Army,
Commanders,
Crime,
Deserted,
Leaders,
Leadership,
Marines,
Rectitude,
Reputation,
Troops,
War
| Keywords:
bleaches, casualties, commanders, Marines, returned
«We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business»
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