Police Quotes

• My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

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  There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

  Jack Nicholson

  Relationship, Girlfriend, Lying

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• The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

  Richard J. Daley

  Silly, Dumb, Enforcement

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  We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.

  Will Rogers

  Punishment, Giving, Criminals

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• The police belongs to the people and the people belong to the police.

  Todor Zhivkov

  People

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  After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

  William S. Burroughs

  Military, Gun, People

  "The War Universe". Grand Street, No. 37, 1991.

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• A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.

  Nancy McKeon

  People, Made, Force

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• The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

  Earl Warren

  Integrity, Law, Hypocrisy

  Writing for the court, Spano v. New York 360 U.S. 321, 1959.

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• Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

  Barbara Boxer

  Law, Safety, Needs

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• We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

  Al Sharpton

  Brutality, Police Brutality

  "NYC Police Investigating Shooting Death by Police of Groom on His Wedding Day". www.foxnews.com. November 25, 2006.

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• Police do not belong in war zones.

  Daniel Keys Moran

  War, Zone, War Zones

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• The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

  Robert Peel

  Giving, Community, Society

  "Introduction to Criminal Justice". Book by Larry Siegel (p. 202), January 5, 2009.

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• Even the police have an unlisted number.

  Morey Amsterdam

  Numbers

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

  Ramsey Clark

  Law, Protect

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• The police are the public and the public are the police.

  Robert Peel

  Thought Police, Policemen

  "Introduction to Criminal Justice" by Larry Siegel, Cengage Learning, (p. 202), January 5, 2009.

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• In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.

  Abel Hermant

  Powerful, People, Principles

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• However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Sarcastic, Men

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• Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Trust, Peace

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• The Thought Police: To censor and protect.

  Craig Reucassel

  Thought Police, Protect

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• There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.

  Steve Chabot

  Law, Cities, Safety

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• No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Military, People, Coward

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.401, Tara Publishing

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• But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Friendship, Marriage, Law Enforcement

  "Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers".

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• The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, Useless, Should

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• When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

  Jacques Prevert

  Real, Today, Censorship

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  I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

  Keith Richards

  Music, Humor, Alcohol

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