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A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

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Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. "Black Power: A Form of Godly Power." Keep the Faith, Baby! Simon & Schuster/Trident Press, 1967.

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People gotta talk themselves into law and order before they do anything about it. Maybe because down deep they don't care. They just don't care.

High Noon

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High Noon. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Stanley Kramer Productions, 1952.

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One legislator accused me of having a nineteenth-century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an eighteenth-century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law-abiding citizens should be one of the government's primary concerns.

Ronald Reagan

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Reagan, Ronald. Address to the Republican State Central Committee Convention. Republican State Central Committee Convention. 7 Sept. 1973, USA.

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It's a stinking world because there's no law and order anymore! It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old, like you done. Oh, it's no world for an old man any longer. What sort of a world is it at all? Men on the moon, and men spinning around the earth, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law and order no more.

A Clockwork Orange

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A Clockwork Orange. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Polaris Productions/Hawk Films, 1971.

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As for rioting, the old Roman way of dealing with that is always the right one; flog the rank and file, and fling the ringleaders from the Tarpeian rock.

Thomas Arnold

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Arnold, Matthew. Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1869. Originally published in Cornhill Magazine, 1868.

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The word "freedom" means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word "order." Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.

Prince Metternich

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Metternich, Klemens von. Mein Politisches Testament [My Political Testament]. c. 1880.

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