Famous quotes containing the words national, police and/or force:
“Five oclock tea is a phrase our rude forefathers, even of the last generation, would scarcely have understood, so completely is it a thing of to-day; and yet, so rapid is the March of the Mind, it has already risen into a national institution, and rivals, in its universal application to all ranks and ages, and as a specific for all the ills that flesh is heir to, the glorious Magna Charta.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.”
—Karl Kraus (18741936)
“Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.”
—Ellen Glasgow (18731945)
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