If you are planning for 20 years, grow trees. If you are planning for centuries, grow people. There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. This life we have is short, so let us leave a mark for people to remember.
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.