Officers Quotes - Page 5

• Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

  William Eldridge Odom

  Country, Falling In Love, Military

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• There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Unjust, Philosopher, Free Will

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1211, Delphi Classics

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• Well, it was war - I could not have carried on as an administrative officer if I had let myself be swayed emotionally by my feelings.

  Oswald Pohl

  War, Feelings, Wells

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play.

  Oswald Spengler

  Army, Play, Soldier

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• Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded.

  Peter James

  Police, Open Minded, Close Minded

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• I have often wondered why the sounds of the beating drums do not make the marching soldiers shoot their officers and go home.

  Albert J. Nock

  Home, Soldier, Sound

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• Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.

  Henry Fielding

  Country, War, Pay

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• I`m a former mayor. I know that being a cop is not an easy job. But when
  police officers misbehave, they`ve got to be held accountable.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Police, Cop

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• I have a carpool with a corrections officer and a construction worker. My kids get to see that we're not segregated based on wealth or standing. It's very cool.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Kids, Construction Workers, Wealth

  "Mark Ruffalo, the Incredible Hunk". Interview with Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2012.

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• An army formed of good officers moves like clockwork; but there is no situation upon earth less enviable, nor more distressing, than that person's who is at the head of troops which are regardless of order and discipline.

  George Washington

  Moving, Army, Order

  George Washington (1795). “Official Letters to the Honorable American Congress,: Written, During the War Between the United Colonies and Great Britain, by His Excellency, George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Continental Forces, Now President of the United States”, p.272

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• Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.

  Anthony Wayne

  Men, Determined

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• A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class.

  Marcy Kaptur

  Average, Class, Minimum Wage

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• Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with.

  Aldrich Ames

  Hurt, Ideas, Kgb

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• When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Jobs, Law, Police

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• In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

  Bobby Sherman

  Cpr, Years, Police

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• The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Believe, Great Day, Navy

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• You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

  Mary Antin

  Children, Two Sides, Noses

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.

  Ernie Pyle

  Gun, Literature, Enough

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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• We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone.

  John Abizaid

  Military, Empowering, Trying

  "General John Abizaid". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

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• I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.

  Alan Autry

  Country, Police, Cooperation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.

  Charles Hodge

  Government, Self, Law

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.7

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• Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.

  Bulent Ecevit

  Army, Ataturk, Staff

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• Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Art, Military, Discipline

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• It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.

  Zane Grey

  New Year, Years, Decent

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• I give no more paroles to British officers.

  Christopher Gadsden

  Giving, Parole, British

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