Police Force Quotes

• To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

  Albert Camus

  Time, Police, Law Enforcement

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.122, Vintage

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• When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Jobs, Law, Police

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• We have a right to expect a police force that protects our citizens and behaves in a responsible manner... in the American conscience there is no room for bigotry and racism.

  George H. W. Bush

  Racism, Police, Citizens

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• I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience.

  Anton Chekhov

  Best Effort, Police, Criticism

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.

  William Howard Taft

  Running, Believe, School

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• When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target.

  Jerry Doyle

  Dad, Pride, Community

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 25, 2002.

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• If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents.

  Leon Panetta

  Police, Agents, Force

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• There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical sprays, in fact some of them have tanks. You now have local police departments that are equipped beyond the standard of American heavy infantry.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Gun, Police, Historical

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• When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real difference between them and the thief? Darn little! They hide behind the excuse that they're legislating democratically. The fact they do it by a majority vote has no moral significance whatsoever. Numerical might does not constitute right, no more than a lynch mob can justify its act because a majority participated.

  H. L. Richardson

  Real, Rights, Majority Vote

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• Christians don't steal or lie, they don't get divorced or have abortions. If the Ten Commandments were followed by everyone we would be able to fire half the police force and in six months the prisons would be all half empty.

  John Hagee

  Christian, Lying, Fire

  John Hagee's "The Fish Gate" sermon, September 2, 2007.

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• FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified.

  Joe Orton

  Running, Integrity, Mistake

  Joe Orton (2014). “Orton Complete Plays: Entertaining Mr Sloane; Loot; What the Butler; Ruffian; Erpingham Camp; Funeral Games; Good & ...”, p.255, A&C Black

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• We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada.

  Paul Cellucci

  Grateful, Government, Police

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• The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.

  Otto Schily

  Military, Past, Police

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• The police force were outstanding in their field. But all they did was stand in their field. They kept passengers on board while they played with a suspect package for two and three quarter hours. Extraordinary.

  Michael O'Leary

  Two, Police, Boards

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• In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

  Gijs de Vries

  Fighting, Agency, Police

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• What we're also doing is helping police forces in terms of issues like procurement and IT, so that savings can be made in those areas which I think is the sort of thing that everybody is going to want us to be doing.

  Theresa May

  Thinking, Issues, Police

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

  Elihu Root

  Men, Ideas, Perfection

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• The American Left complains that we have no right to be the world's police force. On the contrary. We've been the world's janitor for almost a century, and after September 11, it became obvious it's better, safer, and more productive to change things instead of cleaning up after the mess.

  Tammy Bruce

  Police, September 11, Complaining

  Tammy Bruce (2009). “The New American Revolution: How You Can Fight the Tyranny of the Left's Cultural and Moral Decay”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• I'd rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son in the police force,' Esther used to rage to anyone who would listen.

  John Waters

  Daughter, Son, Police

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.146, Macmillan

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• Power... Military success is not sufficient to win: economic development, institution-building and the rule of law, promoting internal reconciliation, good governance, providing basic services to the people, training and equipping indigenous military and police forces, strategic communications, and more of these, along with security, are essential ingredients for long-term success.

  Robert M. Gates

  Peace, Military, Communication

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• We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Encouragement, Police

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Fire, Police, Occupy Movement

  "Elizabeth Warren: 'There Is Nobody in This Country Who Got Rich on His Own'". Campaign video clip, www.cbsnews.com. September 22, 2011.

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• The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

  Harry S. Truman

  Marine, Army, Long

  Harry S. Truman (1995). “The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• It used to be that a fellow went on the police force when everything else failed, but today he goes in the advertising game.

  Kin Hubbard

  Games, Police, Today

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• I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has a particle of law in it, then enact new laws for the workingmen.

  Denis Kearney

  Book, Law, Cities

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