It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to …

Ayn Rand
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It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman. ✨ Ayn Rand (2016). Atlas Shrugged, p.443, Hamilton Books
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