IDENTIFIED PATTERNS - LAW ENFORCEMENT/POLICE CONDUCT

"We are not free, separate, and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way."
Thomas Mann

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller

"Adversity does not build character…it reveals it." - John Wooden

"There is normally no reason for the State to inject itself into the private realm of the family to further question fit parents' ability to make the best decisions regarding their children" - Troxel v. Granville, 530 US 2000 (99-138):

"A man that doesn't stand for something will fall for anything." - Peter Marshall

"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt." - William Van Horne

"Half a truth is often a great lie." - Ben Franklin

"[s]imply because the decision of a parent is not agreeable to a child or because it involves risks does not automatically transfer the power to make that decision from the parents to some agency or officer of the state." - Troxel v. Granville, 530 US 2000 (99-138):

"Our lives end the day we become silent about the things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.