Officers Quotes - Page 11

• The verdicts today should send the message that within the police department there is no greater betrayal of the badge and of the brotherhood than to ensnare another officer in a web of lies and deceit.

  Loretta Lynch

  Betrayal, Lying, Police

  "New York Jury Convicts Three Officers on Charges Related to Torture of Abner Louima". "World Today" with Jim Moret, www.cnn.com. March 6, 2000.

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• Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out of 2,200 British soldiers 1,034 were killed or wounded, including one in nine of all the officers the British lost in the whole war.

  Geoffrey Wheatcroft

  War, British Soldiers, Victory

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• At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will be my fault. It will not be because of the misjudgments made by a risk committee or chief risk officer.

  Warren Buffett

  Book, Risk, Faults

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• I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Brave, Soldier

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.476, Library of America

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• Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Enemy, Events

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• He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without reproach; a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar, without his ambition; Frederick, without his tyranny; Napoleon, without his selfishness, and Washington, without his reward.

  Benjamin Harvey Hill

  Christian, Hate, Ambition

  Benjamin Harvey Hill (1891). “Senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia: His Life, Speeches and Writings”

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• Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.

  Ambrose

  Heaven, Gentleman, Church

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• A policeman stopped me and said: Would you please blow into this bag, sir? I said: What for, officer? He said: My chips are too hot.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Blow

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• I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.

  Wally Schirra

  Beautiful, Kids, Wings

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• If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews?—yea, dancing as well as playing, and several other Judaic actions? or, how can we decline a whole rabble of church-officers, necessary to be introduced for instrumental musick, whereof our Lord Jesus Christ hath left us no manner of direction?

  Cotton Mather

  Jesus, Dancing, Church

  Cotton Mather (1820). “Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from Its First Planting in the Year 1620, Unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698”, p.228

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• If those extra-social brains are so potent, why after all do they effect so little? A dull police-officer, with the machine behind him, can afford to laugh at most experiments in anarchy.

  John Buchan

  Laughing, Police, Brain

  John Buchan (2016). “JOHN BUCHAN Ultimate Collection: Spy Classics, Thrillers, Adventure Novels & Short Stories, Including Historical Works and Essays (Illustrated): Scottish Poems, World War I Books & Mystery Novels like Thirty-Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Huntingtower, No Man’s Land, Prester John and many more”, p.807, e-artnow

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• Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.

  Horatio Nelson

  Gentleman, Seamen

  Horatio Nelson (1846). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.214

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• There are very many characteristics which go into making a model civil servant. Prominent among them are probity, industry, good sense, good habits, good temper, patience, order, courtesy, tact, self-reliance, many deference to superior officers, and many consideration for inferiors.

  Chester A. Arthur

  Order, Self, Habit

  First annual message, 1881.

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• If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers from providing in a Government contract terms reasonably calculated to assure its performance even though there be no money loss through a particular default, there is no problem. But answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question, and thereby begging the real one.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Real, Loss, Government

  "Priebe & Sons., Inc. v. United States, 332 U.S. 407". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. November 17, 1947.

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• Intelligence officers are supposed to put the facts on the table and really walk away from the policy discussion.

  Michael Morell

  Tables, Facts, Intelligence Officers

  "Flawed Intelligence In The 'War Of Our Time'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 10, 2015.

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• If you can't get up for an old woman on the bus, you can't be an officer in the IDF.

  Moshe Ya'alon

  Idf, Get Up, Bus

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• I don't care if they're licensed legal firearms, people who are not highly trained putting guns in their hands is a recipe for disaster. So I'll train our officers that there is a concealed carry law, but when somebody turns with a firearm in their hand the officer does not have an obligation to wait to get shot to return fire and we're going to have tragedies as a result of that. I'm telling you right up front.

  Garry McCarthy

  Gun, Fire, Hands

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• First, we believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns
  in America's schools, period ... with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained se
  curity personnel.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Zero, Believe, School

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• The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.

  Frank Serpico

  Police, Atmosphere, Doe

  "The Return of Frank Serpico". Frank Serpico's speech before the New York Knapp Commission on police corruption and other misconduct, www.villagevoice.com. October 1971.

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• My father was a police officer with the New York Police Department; I've always had a high respect for officers. I want to give back to the community, and I want to work with young kids, help them get off drugs.

  Lou Ferrigno

  New York, Father, Kids

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• Who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers. But I cannot say who will be the militia of the future day. If that paper on the table [the Constitution] gets no alteration, the militia of the future day may not consist of all classes, high and low, and rich and poor.

  George Mason

  Class, People, Second Amendment

  "The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution", vol. 3, edited by Jonathan Elliot, 1974.

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• I saw my husband in his cell for ten minutes. During the interview the cell was packed with officers and a sergeant, who kept a watch in his hand and closed the interview by saying, 'Your ten minutes is now up.'

  Grace Gifford

  Husband, Women, Cells

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• War buddies don't exist in the meeting room. It's a battle between a lot of different officers. Some continue fighting when they don't realize that they have been shot.

  Hideo Kojima

  War, Fighting, Battle

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• One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.

  Larry Niven

  Decision, Leader, Mark

  "Ringworld". Book by Larry Niven, 1970.

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• If the Marines are abolished half the efficiency of the Navy will be destroyed. They are as necessary to the well being of a ship as the officers. Instead of decreasing the Corps, I would rather hope to see a large increase, for we feel the want of Marines very much.

  David Dixon Porter

  Hope, Military, Marine

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