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Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

— Robert Peel

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You might on moral and social grounds prefer cornfields to cotton factories, an agricultural to a manufacturing population.

The principles which should govern the commercial intercourse of nations, do not differ from those which regulate the dealings of private individuals.

The police are the public and the public are the police.

I think there is a gentlemanlike policy which nations as well as individuals would do well to adopt.

Whatever country squires may think, it is not safe to guarantee the continuance of the present Corn Laws.

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