Officers Quotes - Page 12

• The overall similarity is probably in the mentality of law enforcement officers. There's a sense of wanting to really uphold a sense of morality and make sure that the laws are enforced to the letter, whenever possible.

  Benjamin McKenzie

  Law, Enforcement, Letters

  Source: collider.com

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• Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.

  Michael Mullen

  Military, Moral Fiber, Democracy

  USNA Commencement Address in Annapolis, Maryland, May 23, 2008.

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• The military doesn't teach rifle marksmanship. It teaches equipment familiarity. Despite what the officer corps thinks, learning to shoot a rifle is not like learning to drive a car. Instead, it is like learning to play the violin.... The equipment familiarity learning curve comes up quick, but then the rifle marksmanship continuation of the curve rises very slowly....by shooting one careful shot at a time, carefully inspecting the result (and the cause).

  Daryl Davis

  Military, Gun, Thinking

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• [T]ake the war on drugs. The average American says, "The war on drugs has been beneficial." The rest of us see reality. This war has destroyed thousands of Americans. It is also a pretext for government agents to rob innocent people in airports and on the highways - they seize and confiscate large amounts of cash and say to their victims: "Sue us if you don't like it." And more and more judges, politicians, intelligence agents, and law-enforcement officers are on the take - as dependent on the drug-war largess as the drug lords themselves.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  War, Reality, Average

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• If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified by the President and officers who have taken the oath and are under moral obligation to uphold it....they may substitute personal and arbitrary government-the first principle of the totalitarian system against which it has been alleged that World War II was waged-while giving lip service to the principle of constitutional government.

  Charles A. Beard

  War, Taken, America

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• JESTER, n. An officer attached to the king's household to amuse the court by ludicrous actions and utterances . . . the king's own conduct and decrees [being] sufficiently ridiculous for the amusement not only of his court but of all mankind.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kings, Utterance, Amusement

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• The problem is, is the White House and this administration have created a war against police officers in this country, with their allegations and false assertions that there's widespread and pervasive racism in the United States of America that lives in the heart and minds of the men and women in blue. This is a false narrative. It is dangerous. It is reckless. It has resulted in the loss of lives. They are not being held accountable.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Country, War, Heart

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?

  Meg Greenfield

  Success, Exercise, Men

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• Politically or ideologically oriented evaluations of Chief Justice Rehnquist should not overlook what a successful and popular chief justice he was within the Court as the justices' presiding officer, .. The contrast between Rehnquist's undeniably happy Court and that of his predecessor, Warren E. Burger, could not have been greater.

  David Garrow

  Successful, Justice, Evaluation

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• Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Law, Assault Weapons, Cities

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• Arms is a profession that, if its principles are adhered to for success, requires an officer do what he fears may be wrong, and yet, according to military experience, must be done, if success is to be attained.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Military, Done, May

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• Sir! Men who desert their comrades in war deserve to be shot! And Officers who intrude for them deserve to be hung!

  Stonewall Jackson

  War, Men, Desert

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• The other night I came home late, and tried to unlock my house with my car keys. I started the house up. So, I drove it around for a while. I was speeding, and a cop pulled me over. He asked where I lived. I said, "Right here, officer."

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• Be easy and condescending in your deportment to your officers, but not too familiar, lest you subject yourself to a want of respect, which is necessary to support a proper command.

  George Washington

  Support, Want, Easy

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1776). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.81

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• One of my officers said to me that Trinidad and Tobago is seen like an ATM card... you come in with the card and you come back out with cash. It cannot happen anymore. It just cannot happen.

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar

  Cards, Atm, Cash

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• Everybody thinks it's glamorous and this spy versus spy stuff is so exciting, but working in that industry and being a CIA operative, like a field officer, is tough. That's a difficult job that usually dismantles their lives in some capacity.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Jobs, Thinking, Spy

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• I once went to a demonstration in Aachen against fare increases on public transport. A police officer pulled out a bunch of my hair, and there were a lot of violent beatings. That's when I thought to myself: You'd better leave it alone.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Hair, Police, Violent

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• The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

  Charles Williams

  Leadership, Religious, Judging

  Charles Williams (2016). “Essential Writings in Spirituality and Theology”, p.86, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.

  George Tenet

  People, Culture, Telling The Truth

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• You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Patience, Police, Taste

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lyn Pykett (2012). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.124, Oxford University Press

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• If I had a little kid in kindergarten somewhere, would feel much more comfortable if I knew on that campus there was a police officer or somebody who was trained with a weapon. I would feel more comfortable.

  Benjamin Carson

  Kids, Police, Littles

  "Ben Carson 'Much More Comfortable' If Kindergarten Teachers Had Guns" by Katherine Faulders, abcnews.go.com. October 6, 2015.

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• All civil states, with their officers of justice, in their respective constitutions and administrations, are proved essentially civil, and therefore not judges, governors, or defenders of the spiritual, or Christian, state and worship.

  Roger Williams

  Christian, Spiritual, Civilization

  Roger DAVIS, Roger Williams (2009). “On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger Williams”, p.86, Harvard University Press

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• Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Enemy, Events

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• Officers don't run, only corporals do that

  Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

  Running, Historical

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• But the reality is that we don't live in Mr. Rogers neighborhood anymore. The reality is that our officers should be armed.

  Ronnie Moran

  Reality, Roger, Should

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