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“One solution might be to impose the duty on admissions officers to arbitrarily admit only half women and half men.”

Men Might Half Duty Solutions Officers Admission

Book:The Final Columns of Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I

Source: The Final Columns of Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I

“When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.”

Source: History of the United States: to which is prefixed a brief historical account of our [English] ancestors, from the dispersion at Babel, to their migration to America, and of the conquest of South America, by the Spaniards

“Diffidence in an officer is a good mark because he will always endeavor to bring himself up to what he conceives to be the full line of his duty.”

Lines Duty Mark Endeavor Officers Diffidence

Book:The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts

“Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever names they might pass and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the central power.”

States Government Might Form Names Money Power Effects Duty Source Instruments Mere Officers Treasury

Author:Andrew Jackson

“I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I've always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it's possible to support the warrior and be against the war.”

People Thinking War Country Father Force Felt Support Air Brother Duty Grew Honor Grew Up Army Soldier Warrior My Brother Officers Grandfather My Grandfather Air Force Kinship

Author:Kris Kristofferson

“The duties which a police officer owes to the state are of a most exacting nature. No one is compelled to choose the profession ofa 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.”

Mean States Individual Duty Discipline Standards Police Profession Surrender Chosen Enterprise Officers Requirements Compelled Obliged Police Officer Individual Freedom

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“I'M SYMPATHETIC, because I wasn't there so I don't know exactly what happened. Maybe Darren Wilson acted within his rights and duty as an officer of the law and killed Michael Brown in self defense like any of us would in the circumstance. Now he has to fear the backlash against himself and his loved ones when he was only doing his job. What a horrible thing to endure. OR maybe he provoked Michael and ignited the series of events that led to him eventually murdering the young man to prove a point.”

Source: Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.

“No officer should be required or permitted to take part in the management of political organizations, caucuses, conventions, or election campaigns. Their right to vote and to express their views on public questions, either orally or through the press, is not denied, provided it does not interfere with the discharge of their official duties. No assessment for political purposes on officers or subordinates should be allowed.”

“The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duty from the front line.”

“Officers must be made to care for their men. That is the sole duty of all officers.”

Men Made Care Duty Officers Sole

Author:George S. Patton

“No person shall be restrained of his liberty but by regular process from a court of justice, authorized by a general law. . . . On complaint of an unlawful imprisonment to any judge whatsoever, he shall have the prisoner immediately brought before him and shall discharge him if his imprisonment be unlawful. The officer in whose custody the prisoner is shall obey the order of the judge, and both judge and officer shall be responsible civilly and criminally for a failure of duty herein.”

Ifs Persons Law Order Process Justice Liberty Judging Duty Responsible Court Prisoner Officers Complaints Being Responsible Imprisonment Discharge Custody Unlawful

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.”

Made Duty Exercise Paid Merit Pockets Officers Salary Appointments

Book:Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes

Source: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes

“Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.”

Way Giving May War Pain Sea Duty Painful Consideration Officers Great Business Horatio Endless Sea

Author:Horatio Nelson

“Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.”

Needs Helping Law Duty Protect Police Safety Servant Officers Dedicated Threatened Law Enforcement Enforcement Public Servants Public Safety

Author:Barbara Boxer