Policemen Quotes

• The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

  Huey Newton

  Gun, Hands, Racism

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• Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

  Lin Yutang

  Inspirational, Motivational, Veterans Day

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• My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!

  John Dillinger

  People, Fireman, Stealing

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

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• Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

  David Mamet

  Police, Groups, Citizens

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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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 toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.

  Ronnie Barker

  Inspirational, Funny, Police

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

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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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• 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, Police

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

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• I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

  John Ratzenberger

  Soldier, Sailor

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• Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Hair, Police, Facts

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• I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Children, Lasts, Next

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

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• I always seemed to fall in love with policemen.

  Cynthia Payne

  Falling In Love, Fall

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• As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Years, World

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• I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

  Robin Tunney

  Aunt, Grandfather, Chicago

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• As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

  Cyril Connolly

  Life, Fear, Publishing Books

  Enemies of Promise (1938) ch. 10

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• My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.

  Donald Coggan

  Ignorance, Thinking, Talking

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• Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Freedom, Writing, Perfect

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.187, Dial Press

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• The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

  L. Neil Smith

  Military, War, Drug

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

  Richard J. Daley

  Silly, Dumb, Police

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• Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

  Trent Reznor

  Stars, Rocks, Careers

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• Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say: 'Do you want the criminals off the street or not?'

  Kurt Russell

  Police, Criminals, Want

  "Dark Blue - Kurt Russell Q&A". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Police, Enforcement, Law Enforcement

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 so much you can do with an attorney on a show that's about New York policemen.

  Sherry Stringfield

  New York, Attorney, Shows

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• I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

  Martin Scorsese

  Way, Cop, Duty

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