Quote by Lin Yutang
Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where the

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice. – Lin Yutang

Other quotes by Lin Yutang

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks. – Lin Yutang

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Honesty
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Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. – Lin Yutang

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Hope
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I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking. – Lin Yutang

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Clothing
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Peace
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We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others. – Marianne Williamson

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I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies. – Elia Kazan

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Seek peace, and pursue it. Proverbs 34:14 – Bible

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I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace. – Edward Lear

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If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease. – Socrates

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There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away. – Author Unknown

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I dont think childrens inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house they want places to play. – Beverly Cleary

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parenting

You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am – a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. Its just something that comes natural now. – Tim McGraw

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dad