Police Quotes

No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be other than this – “devoted and obedient.” This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.

The greatest guarantee against the emergence of a police state in this society is the presence of a strong, respected, just police force.

One of the fondest expressions around is that we (United States) can’t be the world’s policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop?

Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

Operator! Give me the number for 911. (Homer Simpson)

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

We have to have armies! We have to have military power! We have to have police forces, whether it’s police in a great city or police in an international scale to keep those madmen from taking over the world and robbing the world of its liberties.

One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, “Didn’t you see the stop sign?” I said, “Yeah, but I don’t believe everything I read.”

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman’s truncheon over the anarchist’s bomb.

With regard to these policemen I must remark that they are recruited according to their beauty and size; they are like gods, a head taller than mortal men, and their power is unlimited. When one of these bobbies, two metres high, raises his hand in Piccadilly, Saturn comes to a standstill and Uranus stops on […]