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)

“Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to benumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.”
—Ida M. Tarbell (1857–1944)

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

“If an ox will not drink water, you cannot force its head down to drink.”
—Chinese proverb.