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. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Conduct is determined by values.
Values are what makes us who we are. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. Official Army Leadership Definitions. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.