America is the world's policeman, all right -- a big, dumb, mick flatfoot in the middle of the one thing cops dread… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at heart and policemen sometimes killed people… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
A traffic policeman stops Sister Bridget for speeding. She pulls into the side of the road and winds down her window. The… — Frank Carson Copy Share Image
“Abdul hadn’t previously thought of policemen as people with hearts and lungs who worried about money or their health. The world seemed… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when a person sees the roguery of poor people and the thievery of people in high positions, he is tempted to… — Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“To sit a fine Christian gentleman down in close proximity to an unsavoury crowd of prostitutes was bad enough. Even worse was… — William Donaldson Copy Share Image
Taking the money from drug operations and all that sort of stuff is something that goes past what most of us in… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
“Kayla,' I exclaim. 'There may be bad police officers out there, but I can assure you that there will be no harm… — Simi Sunny Copy Share Image
Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough… — Harriet Quimby Copy Share Image
Whenever you try to do good with someone else's money, you are committed to using force. How can you do good with… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
These are the three main diseases of this country, sir: typhoid, cholera, and election fever. This last one is the worst; it… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
When [Bill Clinton] was running for president. I'll never forget this one. He was running in New Hampshire. He was not doing… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I like good ideas. I don't want just do something for it's own sake to bother people, but if I can bother… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We watch so many TV shows and movies about jaded or corrupt policemen, we forget people join the police force to do… — Enrico Colantoni Copy Share Image
For men there are costumes like fireman, policeman and vampire. For women there are costumes like slutty fireman, slutty policeman and slutty… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
The name alone usually attracts about 50 or so curiosity seekers to the show. We know if we're playing the Policeman's Ball… — Hank Williams III Copy Share Image
The confrontation was not created by the police. The confrontation was created by the people who charged the police. Gentlemen, get the… — Richard J. Daley Copy Share Image
When a felon's not engaged in his employment Or maturing his felonious little plans His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Indiana taxpayers, retired Hoosier state policemen and teachers are neither greedy speculators nor unpatriotic. They are, however, secured creditors of Chrysler. They… — Richard Mourdock Copy Share Image
I think what education gives you is a voice. It gives you a way of talking to a judge. When a policeman… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Do you ever sing in the car?" "Generally not. But I am driving a police car." "I think people would like a… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
If I were in the government I would have a brigade of policemen assigned to keeping an eye on people who paint… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
I'M CONFUSED, because I don't know why it's so hard to obey a policeman. You will not win!!! And I don't know… — Benjamin Watson Copy Share Image
The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
“In the era of angry and aggressive policing, it is an honorable service to your fellow citizens to video record police officers… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to… — Ginger Baker Copy Share Image
Many policemen have not completed their education, and the university can help them on this front. Education will enable them to speak… — Asha Bhosle Copy Share Image
“Corrupt and incompetent police officers have a long history of being protected by their colleagues, police internal affairs and the government.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up… — Minnie Pearl Copy Share Image
The true meaning of America, you ask? It's in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman's badge, in the sound of laughing children,… — Audie Murphy Copy Share Image
I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor – even President,… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Then one day my sister abandoned me at the 1939 World's Fair, and that incident is the essence of In the Night… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Before the counter-culture revolutionary Li Lian was executed in 1971 for criticising the Cultural Revolution, pour policemen pushed her face against the… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
The aeroplane. . . is not capable of unlimited magnification. It is not likely that it will ever carry more than five… — Waldemar Kaempffert Copy Share Image