I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.
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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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Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.
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I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.
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Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.
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Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.
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