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Source: The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including His Private as Well as His Official and Scientific Correspondence, and Numerous Letters and Documents Now for the First Time Printed, with Many Others Not Included in Any Former Collection, Also, the Unmutilated and Correct Version of His Autobiography

“In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are, if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete. We have got to have officers who can create harmony across all those lines.”

Ifs Needs Home Care Age Lines Enemy Military Harmony Don't Care Brilliant I Don't Care Officers Vicious Civilians Battlefields Obsolete Coalitions

Author:James Mattis

“The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.”

World Writing Has Beens Military Training Soldier Officers Very Cool Military Training

Author:David Baldacci

“To a police officer, a sawed off shotgun is the ultimate nightmare. You can blow someone in half!”

Half Ultimate Police Blow Nightmare Officers Police Officer Shotguns

Author:Steven Seagal

“For years we have been counseled to have on hand a year's supply of food. Yet there are some today who will not start storing until the Church comes out with a detailed monthly home storage program. Now suppose that never happens. We still cannot say we have not been told. Should the Lord decide at this time to cleanse the Church- and the need for that cleansing seems to be increasing- a famine in this land of one year's duration could wipe out a large percentage of slothful members, including some ward and stake officers. Yet we cannot say we have not been warned.”

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse.”

Party Terrible Revolutionary Officers Purses Subordinates Proletariat

Book:The Jewish State

Source: The Jewish State

“In whatever country you live, however young or inadequate you feel, or however aged or limited you see yourself as being, I testify you are individually loved of God, you are central to the meaning of His work, and you are cherished and prayed for by the presiding officers of His Church. The personal value, the sacred splendor of every one of you, is the very reason there is a plan for salvation and exaltation.”

Feels Country Reason Young Values Church Plans Sacred Salvation Officers Inadequate Splendor Exaltation Personal Values

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.”

Hands Ability Five Clean Officers Impartiality Clean Hands

Book:Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims

“When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order: The general is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing - a vice little known heretofore in the American army - is growing into fashion. Let the men and officers reflect "that we can not hope for the blessing of heaven on our army if we insult it by our impiety and folly."”

“My intention always has been to arrive at human contact without enforcing authority. A musician, after all, is not a mili- tary officer. What matters most is human contact. The great mys- tery of music making requires real friendship among those who work together. Every member of the orchestra knows I am with him and her in my heart.”

“As governor, I came to believe that the death penalty would be a just punishment for certain, especially heinous crimes, such as the murder of a child or the murder of a police officer. The events of September 11 convinced me that terrorists also deserve the ultimate punishment.”

“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.”

Ifs Children Turns Sides Heard Noses Officers Two Sides Examining Turned Down

Book:The Promised Land

Source: The Promised Land

“The verdicts today should send the message that within the police department there is no greater betrayal of the badge and of the brotherhood than to ensnare another officer in a web of lies and deceit.”

Should Today Lying Greater Messages Police Betrayal Department Deceit Officers Brotherhood Badges Verdict Police Department Webs Of Lies

Author:Loretta Lynch

“Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out of 2,200 British soldiers 1,034 were killed or wounded, including one in nine of all the officers the British lost in the whole war.”

Ifs War Whole Lost Victory Including Soldier British Nine Officers Wounded Patriot Fortification British Soldiers

Author:Geoffrey Wheatcroft

“At Berkshire, I both initiate and monitor every derivatives contract on our books ... If Berkshire ever gets in trouble, it will be my fault. It will not be because of the misjudgments made by a risk committee or chief risk officer.”

Ifs Made Book Risk Trouble Management Faults Chiefs Contracts Officers Committees Risk Management Initiate Derivatives

Author:Warren Buffett

“We pass bills authorizing improvements and grants. But when it comes time to pay for these programs, we'd rather put the country's money toward tax breaks for the wealthy than for police officers who are protecting our communities.”

Country Community Pay Break Taxes Program Police Bills Improvement Wealthy Grants Officers Our Community Police Officer Tax Breaks

Author:David Price

“The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.”

Saws Happened Fields Police Indifference Department Officers Cop Surviving Onions Police Department

Author:Joseph Wambaugh

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

Country Police Cooperation Officers Funding Mayors Police Officer

Author:Alan Autry

“The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.”

Ifs May Persons Long Streets Long Time Police Officers Arrested Police Officer Muggers

Author:Mario Cuomo

“One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.”

Believe Persons Magic Amount Police Threat Genuine Officers Sane Police Officer Mushrooms Frisbee

Author:Mark Thomas

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

Years Firsts Lasts Training Police Aids Officers Police Officer Cpr Lapd

Author:Bobby Sherman

“I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war.”

War Speak Causes Term Praise Brave Soldier Dues Civil War Officers

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

“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.”

War Force Causes Enemy Mankind Events Command Civil War Capture Officers Outlaw Butlers Branded Felons

Author:Jefferson Davis

“He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without reproach; a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar, without his ambition; Frederick, without his tyranny; Napoleon, without his selfishness, and Washington, without his reward.”

Source: Senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia: His Life, Speeches and Writings

“Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.”

Heaven Church Degrees Superiors Fats Gentleman Holiness Officers Aristocracy

Author:Ambrose

“A policeman stopped me and said: Would you please blow into this bag, sir? I said: What for, officer? He said: My chips are too hot.”

Said Humor Funny Please Hot Blow Bags Officers Chips Policemen

Author:Tommy Cooper

“I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.”

Kids Wanted Beautiful Young Gold Wings Shoes Brown Officers Navy Intrigued Naval

Author:Wally Schirra

“Nearly all Italian officers speak French.”

Speak Talking Italian Officers Speaks French

Author:Hugh Dalton

“Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.”

Doe Use Force Failing Threat Harm Justify Suspects Officers Reincarnation Deadly Force

Author:Byron White

“It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.”

Law President Economy Advice Authority Congress Officers Senate Inferiors Consent Benches

Author:John Jay Hooker

“If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews?—yea, dancing as well as playing, and several other Judaic actions? or, how can we decline a whole rabble of church-officers, necessary to be introduced for instrumental musick, whereof our Lord Jesus Christ hath left us no manner of direction?”

Source: Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from Its First Planting in the Year 1620, Unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698

“People will be able to raise their concerns: what are local officers doing about the drug dealing in the local park? What's happening about the pub where all the trouble is? And the police will have to respond.”

People Able Trouble Drug Happenings Concern Police Raises Locals Parks Officers Pubs

Author:Theresa May

“And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do.”

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Author:Theresa May

“The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I explain to them that the terrorists had left, that the terrorists had worn Israeli uniforms, that the terrorists had been sent into Chatila by Israeli officers, that the victims of the terrorists were not Israelis but Palestinians and Lebanese?”

Left Absolutes Victim Conviction Terrorist Certainty Officers Possessed Palestinian Worn Uniforms Israeli Absolute Certainty Lebanese

Author:Robert Fisk

“I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.”

Paid Police Officers Payment Policemen Police Officer

Author:Rebekah Brooks