If Her Majesty's Government be really desirous of seeing a well-conducted community spring up in these Colonies, the social wants of the people must be considered† For all the clergy you can despatch, all the schoolmasters you can appoint, all the churches you can build, and all the books you can export, will never do much good without what a gentleman in that Colony veryappropriately called 'God's police'öwives and little childrenögood and virtuous women. 213

-Chisholm, Caroline ne¤  e Jones
Emigration and Transportation Relatively Considered; in a Letter, Dedicated, by Permission, to Earl Grey,17  Jun. The phrase 'God's police' was adopted by Australian feminist  Anne

If the individual isno longer to be sovereign, if the police can pick him up whenever they do not like the cut of his jib†we enter a new regime.

-Douglas, (George) Norman
  Dissenting opinion in ruling to uphold the police right 'to stop and frisk',10  Jun.

We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones. Everybody knows that the United Nations isnot ina position to dothat† We must facethe fact that the United Nations is not yet the internal equivalent of ourown legal systemand rule of law.Police action must be to separate the belligerents and to prevent a resumption of hostilities.

-Eden, Sir (Robert) Anthony, 1st Earl of Avon
  House of Commons,1 Nov.

The police dog of American fiction, except that his hatred isnottheresultof mere crabbednessbut of aneye that sees too deep for comfort.

-Fadiman, Clifton
Of US writer Ring Lardner. Quoted in Scott Meredith George S Kaufman and His Friends (1974).

All thistime [San Francisco, from1955] Irealized we were involved as a community with a historical change of consciousness and some kind of cultural revolution† I thought it wasreally insomerespects a contest between further liberation or1984 authoritarianism, police state; that it was creeping police state or creeping socialism- libertarianism.

-Ginsberg, Allen
  Quoted in Gordon Ball (ed)  Allen Ginsberg:  Journals Mid- Fifties (1995),'Meditations on Record Keeping by Poet, Transcribed by Editor'.

   A spectre is haunting Europeöthe spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holyalliance to exorcise this spectre; Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police spies.

-Marx, Karl Heinrich
  The Communist Manifesto (with Friedrich Engels, translated by Samuel Moore,1888).

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

-Orton,Joe originally John Kingsley
  Loot, act 2.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, deeplyas they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  'Some Thoughts on the Common Toad'.

In the western hemisphere, the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.

-Roosevelt,Theodore
  Message to Congress, 6 Dec.

Even if we take marriage at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
Virginibus Puerisque,'Virginibus Puerisque', pt.1.