Armed Police Force

Famous quotes containing the words police force, armed, police and/or force:

    “We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    “A woman’s beauty is a storm-tossed banner;
    Under it wisdom stands, and I alone
    Of all Arabia’s lovers I alone
    Nor dazzled by the embroidery, nor lost
    In the confusion of its night-dark folds,
    Can hear the armed man speak.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Well, intuition isn’t much help in police work. Facts are what we need.”
    —Crane Wilbur (1889–1973)

    “Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.”
    —Greil Marcus (b. 1945)