National Police Force

Famous quotes containing the words police force, national, 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)

    “The national anthem belongs to the eighteenth century. In it you find us ordering God about to do our political dirty work.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

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

    “The body, what is it, Father, but a sign
    To love the force that grows us, to give back
    What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?”
    —Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)