Officers Quotes · Page 9

While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb.

— Ranulph Fiennes

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

— Robert Burns

With any new civilization... they have to have their own officers and police and governments and all that.

— Jimi Hendrix

All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew…

— Marc Goodman

I think it's a self-serving effort to put a political agenda above the safety of our law enforcement officers.

— Todd Tiahrt

It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.

— Freya Stark

An [officer] is still a human being. When that fear kicks in, you never know what can happen.

— Method Man

“I have nothing against gay officers, but its time to get your shit straight an leave the drag at home.”

— Khalia Hades

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

— Mary Frances Berry

[Addressing a group of military officers:] Are you a feminist? Oh ... wrong question. I should have asked, 'Are you a father?'…

— Estelle Ramey

Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it…

— Robert E. Lee

A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows…

— Herman Melville

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn…

— Mary Antin

Some intelligence officers filed reports saying that this is a dangerous group, but at one level it was not forwarded, it was…

— Yoweri Museveni

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

— Ambrose

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their…

— Thomas Jefferson

I often compare myself as a kid to my own grandchildren, who are around 11 and 14 now. That's the age kids…

— Lois Lowry

Has the Ministry assessed what manpower savings or cost efficiencies have been derived from such use of new technologies, and how policing…

— Sylvia Lim

African-Americans want to be safe in their community, like any other nationality that lives in America. They don't want to be robbed.…

— Ras Baraka

That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or…

— George Mason

The big story now is that President Bush is coming under attack for his service in the National Guard. The White House…

— Jay Leno

In this age, I dont care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are, if you cannot create harmony even vicious harmony on…

— James Mattis

The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities,…

— John Francis Hylan

That way when we pick people up there they don't really have an excuse. They weren't out there picking mushrooms. They were…

— Steve King

The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence.

— Peter James

Shoot the brave officers, and the cowards will run away and take the men with them.

— Stonewall Jackson

The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.

— Antony Beevor

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.

— Herman Melville

“A cop is a human creature born stupid and raised in stupidity.”

— Norman Mailer

A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.

— Joe Haldeman

'Come back here, I'm a police officer!' and I shouted back 'No you're not! You're a monster!'

— Russell Howard

I have always told my subordinates that when they commit any mistakes, the blame must be laid on the superior officers.

— Chiang Kai-shek

“Apparently officers are not ‘men’. Officers are ‘officers’.”

— Aditi Mathur Kumar

“I call police officers “Untouchables”, as it is almost impossible to get a complaint upheld against one.”

— Steven Magee

Too many security officers live day to day. They just want to be treated with dignity.

— John Wilson

Sir! Men who desert their comrades in war deserve to be shot! And Officers who intrude for them deserve to be hung!

— Stonewall Jackson

Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.

— Chester W. Nimitz

Now, I don't see color. People tell me I'm white and I believe them because police officers call me 'sir'.

— Stephen Colbert

Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.

— Phyllis Schlafly

Colin stared at the officer. “Thorne, you scare me. I’m not ashamed to say it.

— Tessa Dare