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"Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do neccesary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"To police is not to conquer, to police is to remind people there are rules that if followed benefit all." »Christopher A. McDonald
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"A functioning police state needs no police." »William S. Burroughs
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"If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws." »Edward Abbey
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"Spiritual force is stronger than material force thoughts rule the world." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined." »Patrick Henry
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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined." »Patrick Henry
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"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit." »Ansel Adams
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"Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit." »Ansel Adams
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"force overcome by force.
(Vi Victa Vis)" »Cicero
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"Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long-bow; its force depends on the strength of the hand that draws it. But argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force if drawn by a child or a man." »Charles Boyle
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"We Americans have no commission from God to police the world." »Benjamin Harrison
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"The police.....always wanting to play games." »Maude (Ruth Gordon), from the movie "Harold & Maude"
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"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." »Jeff Marder
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"Who will protect the public when the police violate the law" »Ramsey Clark
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"For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments." »James Brady
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"force overcome by force." »Cicero
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"The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them." »Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-30-03
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"I don't like the idea that the police department seems bent on keeping a pool of unarmed victims available for the predations of the criminal class." »David Mohler
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"I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police." »Albert Einstein
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"Youth, large, lusty, loving- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination" »Mark Twain
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"When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I picked it up, and started wondering who this person was, and why he had deer horns." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship,' we call it 'concern for commercial viability.'" »James Russell Lowell
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"I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then when somebody comes up act like they just woke up and go, 'What was THAT'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"…instead of wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on compulsory ID cards as the Tory Right demand, let that money provide thousands of extra police officers on the beat in our local communities." »Tony Blair, Speech to the Labor Party Conference 3 October 1995
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"When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom" »Laurie Anderson
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"There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution." »Michael Gartner
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"I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say:”We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory." »Martin Luther King Jr., A Christmas Sermon for Peace on Dec 24, 1967
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"The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way." »George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
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