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“Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.”

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Author:Orson Welles

“We have to have armies! We have to have military power! We have to have police forces, whether it's police in a great city or police in an international scale to keep those madmen from taking over the world and robbing the world of its liberties.”

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Author:Billy Graham

“The abhorrence of society to the use of involuntary confessions does not turn alone on their inherent untrustworthiness. It also turns on the deep-rooted feeling that the police must obey the law while enforcing the law; that, in the end, life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.”

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Author:Earl Warren

“The men who are to protect the community against violent aggression easily turn into the most dangerous aggressors. They transgress their mandate. They misuse their power for the oppression of those whom they were expected to defend against oppression. The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.”

Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method

“We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.”

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Book:Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“Freedom and liberty always mean freedom from police interference.”

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Book:Planned Chaos

Source: Planned Chaos

“Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don't realize that their liberties have been supplanted by a Gestapo Police State. Few understand that hard economic times are here to stay.”

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Author:Paul Craig Roberts

“The right way is the greatest gratifier of human wishes ever come upon - when allowed to operate. It is as morally sound as the Golden Rule. It is the way of willing exchange, of common consent, of self-responsibility, of open opportunity. It respects the right of each to the product of his labor. It limits the police force to keeping the peace. It is the way of the free market, private property, limited government. On its banner is emblazoned Individual Liberty.”

“I have dashed across continents and oceans as a fugitive and have matched my wits with the police and secret agents seeking to deprive me of one of the greatest blessings man can have-liberty.”

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Book:Jack Johnson is a dandy: an autobiography

Source: Jack Johnson is a dandy: an autobiography

“Millions of people have to restore liberty and have to understand the danger and personal risk they face in a police state.”

People States Faces Liberty Millions Risk Danger Police Police State

Author:Naomi Wolf

“The reason I'm voting for Barack Obama is that it's either him or a police state - someone who's carrying on policies that are clearly stated and directed at subverting liberty. He's definitely the lesser of two evils.”

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Author:Naomi Wolf