The duties which a police officer owes to the state are of a most exacting nature. No one is compelled to choose the profession of... a police officer, but having chosen it, everyone is obliged to live up to the standard of its requirements. To join in that high enterprise means the surrender of much individual freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cann...ot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don't blame the police. They can't stop machine guns from being run back and forth across the state lines. They can't enforce laws... that don't exist.... Instead of trying to hide the facts, get busy and see that laws are passed that will do some good.... Pass a federal law that puts the gun in the same class as drugs and white slavery. Put teeth in the deportation act. These gangsters don't belong in this country; half of them aren't even citizens. I'll tell you what to do. Make laws and see that they're obeyed, if we have to have marshall law to do it... The army will help, so will the American Legion.... Let's get wise to ourselves. We're fighting organized murder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the field of politics the equivalent of a theorem is a perfectly disciplined army; of a sonnet or picture, a police state under... a dictatorship. The Marxist calls himself scientific and to this claim the Fascist adds another: he is the poet--the scientific poet--of a new mythology.... Each applies to human situations the procedures which have proved effective in the laboratory and the ivory tower. They simplify, they abstract, they eliminate all that, for their purposes, is irrelevant.... They compel the facts to verify a favorite hypothesis, they consign to the waste paper basket all that, to their mind, falls short of perfection. And because they thus act like good artists, sound thinkers and tried experimenters, the prisons are full, political heretics are worked to death as slaves, the rights and preferences of mere individuals are ignored, the Gandhis are murdered and from morning till night a million school-teachers and broadcasters proclaim the infallibility of the bosses who happen at the moment to be in power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is necessary to turn political crisis into armed crisis by performing violent actions that will force those in power to transfo...rm the military situation into a political situation. That will alienate the masses, who, from then on, will revolt against the army and the police and blame them for this state of things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The last public hanging in the State took place in 1835 on Prince Hill.... On the fatal day, the victim, a man named Watkins, peer...ing through the iron bars of his cell, and seeing the townfolk scurrying to the place of execution, is said to have remarked, 'Why is everyone running? Nothing can happen until I get there.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Religious fervor makes the devil a very real personage, and anything awe-inspiring or not easily understood is usually connected w...ith him. Perhaps this explains why, not only in the Ozarks but all over the State, his name crops up so frequently.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The first general store opened on the 'Cold Saturday' of the winter of 1833 ... Mrs. Mary Miller, daughter of the store's promoter..., recorded in a letter: 'Chickens and birds fell dead from their roosts, cows ran bellowing through the streets'; but she failed to state what effect the freeze had on the gala occasion of the store opening.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are your daughters, your sisters, your sons, your nurses, your mechanics, your athletes, your police, your politicians, your fa...thers, your doctors, your soldiers, your mothers. We live with you, care for you, help you, protect you, teach you, love you, and need you. All we ask is that you let us. We are no different. We want to serve, like you. Need love, like you. Feel pain, like you. And we deserve justice, like you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »