Police Protect Quotes

#1. The police protect us, and we're going to protect the police.

George Osborne

#2. Who said childhood was the best time of life? When in reality it was the most terrible, the most merciless era, the barbaric time when there were no police to protect you, only parents preoccupied with themselves and their taller world.

Ray Bradbury

#3. When I was small your grandmother used to say that if you become a police officer, you can't choose who to protect. You have to try to protect everyone.

Fredrik Backman

#4. Unreasonable force is illegal. The force used has to be reasonable under the circumstances to protect the police officers and the public

Kenneth Eade

#5. Police ought to protect communities as well as individuals ... Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply treating illness, so the police - and the rest of us - ought to recognize the importance of maintaining, intact, communities without broken windows.

James Q. Wilson

#6. The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, and to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law.

Ayn Rand

#7. If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our school to protect our children, then call me crazy.

Wayne LaPierre

#8. Here, though, the police do not exist to protect and serve. They exist to maintain terror through unimaginable atrocity.

Edward Lee

#9. The United States isn't a dictatorship ruling with a brutal army and an iron fist, so our police departments must understand that they are there to serve and protect us - all of us. And when they do commit crimes, they must be arrested and prosecuted like anyone else, bottom line.

Al Sharpton

#10. There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.

Henry Rollins

#11. No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. We're becoming more of a police state, and the government is doing everything it can to protect its secrets.

Kenneth Eade

#13. Dear Reader, may God protect you from bad books, police and nagging, moon-faced, fair-haired women.

Francisco De Quevedo

#14. The Thought Police: To censor and protect.

Craig Bruce

#15. My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.

Sidney Sheldon

#16. The police force in America pledge to "protect and serve." That would actually be dandy if it were happening. Bill Hicks used to joke that he'd like to hijack a typically unpunctual plane and force it to go to its scheduled destination on time.

Russell Brand

#17. I understand why you do your job," my mother said to me. "There's a sense of accomplishment when you take down someone bad. It's like being a police officer or being in the Army or being a mother. You have a responsibility to protect and keep order, and you do whatever it takes to get that done.

Janet Evanovich

#18. I was an online service provider. It's not my job to police what people are uploading. It's the job of the content owners, and the law is very clear. If you create content, and you want to protect your copyrights, you have to do the work.

Kim Dotcom

#19. The problem is, some officers put more stock in their title instead of their duty. Yes, your job title is "police." But your duty is to protect and serve. Start there.

Janelle Gray

#20. She wished she could give Isabel a shield, like the ones riot police held, to protect her from male attention, that feeling of being scored each time you walked down a street, the demeaning comments yelled out of cars, that casual sweep of the eyes.

Liane Moriarty

#21. We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be left more vulnerable, other that laziness or callousness in considering what life is like from their point of view.

Steven Pinker

#22. Dear Police:
You can't protect me and be scared of me.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#23. The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

Jeff Cooper

#24. Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

Ramsey Clark

#25. I think in the end the big issue is that the private sector still needs more help. And the answer is not more big government. I know in my state our reforms allowed us to protect firefighters, police officers, and teachers.

Scott Walker

#26. Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

Rush Limbaugh

#27. In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the privacy of phone calls than to preserve the ability of police to conduct wiretaps. When informed about the Clipper Chip, 80% said they opposed it.

Philip Elmer-DeWitt

#28. I vote Democrat because I'm way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves. I am also thankful that we have a 911 service that gets police to your home in order to identify your body after a home invasion.

David Letterman

#29. The one thing the police cannot protect us from is a politician like Bill de Blasio.

Bill O'Reilly

#30. What we're going to do is keep the peace. That's our job. We're not going to be heroes, we're just going to be ... normal.

Terry Pratchett

#31. I tried to talk to the ref but it is easier to get to see the Pope. If I'm in London again and I get mugged I hope the same number of people turn up to protect me. There were six police, four stewards and even a UN peace observer out there.

Gordon Strachan

#32. A protect-yourself-first-and-foremost idea has subverted the mission of law-enforcement officers, just as it may have degraded the military's.

Ann Medlock

#33. The government's only functions are to protect the rights of the individual; therefore, you need a police force and an army.

Neil Peart

#34. I believe my first duty is to survive. And I'm not just talking about criminals coming into my home. I once seriously considered getting a gun to protect myself from the police. If I need a weapon to continue living, I'll get one. And I'll use it.

George Carlin

#35. I knew about loyalty about putting family before all others. I'd already learned some things I'd do to protect my own. I'd withold infomation from the police. I'd use people. I'd lie. If pushed hard ... how far would I go.

Kim Harrington

#36. The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will.

Frank Abagnale

#37. Yeah, it's legal in the United States. It's part of our Constitution. You know, the right to bear arms is because that's the last form of defense against tyranny. Not to hunt. It's to protect yourself from the police.

Ice-T