Policeman Quotes

126 Policeman quotes by 107 unique authors

I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer. — Rebekah Brooks
When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting… — Gary Bauer
The confrontation was not created by the police. The confrontation was created by the people who charged the police. Gentlemen, get the thing straight once… — Richard J. Daley
There is only a policeman in front of something you have need for and don't have access to, so you put a guard there... But… — Jacque Fresco
Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal Anarchism; Individualism… — Voltairine de Cleyre
Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing over the weaker. — Margaret Visser
What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the… — Polly Adler
A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work… — Kent McCord
If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner? — William J. Brennan
Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a… — E. W. Howe
He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make a constable, had… — P.G. Wodehouse
We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker. — Jimmy Carter
You'd never have a motorcycle policeman out on the Indian reservation. — Alex Cox
When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on. — George Orwell
To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief,… — Ramana Maharshi
Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and… — Paul Auster
I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the grounds… — Nick Hornby
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — W. Somerset Maugham
There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman. — Patrick Kavanagh
Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution. — Mark Twain
When he realized who he'd pulled over, the policeman shook his head in disbelief. He told me of all people I should know better. He… — Dennis Franz
A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable… — Mark Twain
Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the… — Mark Twain
Once when I was lost I asked a policeman to help me find my parents. I said to him, 'Do you think we'll ever find… — Rodney Dangerfield

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