National Police Force

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

“Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author’s own conscience.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)

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

“Force was his juices and force was his meat.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)