Military Police Quotes

• There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished.

  Janis Karpinski

  Military, War, Home

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• Military police is very timely for our army.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Military, Army, Police

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• I am a military police officer and I have served on two deployments my first was to Iraq, in a medical unit, and my second deployment was to Kuwait, as a military police platoon leader.

  Tulsi Gabbard

  Military, Kuwait, Two

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• Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Military, People, Evil

  "Barrayar". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1991.

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  People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

  Richard Grenier

  Strength, Wisdom, Veterans Day

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• Our military, police forces, fire fighters ... those are the real Hall of Famers.

  Chris Hanburger

  Military, Real, Fire

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• Beneath a free government there is nothing but the intelligence of the people to keep the people's peace. Order must be preserved, not by a military police or regiments of horse-guards, but by the spontaneous concert of a well-informed population, resolved that the rights which have been rescued from despotism shall not be subverted by anarchy.

  Edward Everett

  Horse, Military, Order

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.609

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• Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Military, Should Have, Law

  Katherine Anne Porter, Darlene Harbour Unrue (2008). “Collected stories and other writings”

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