Manchester Police Committee

Famous quotes containing the words manchester, police and/or committee:

    “The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    “To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.”
    —Albert Camus (1913–1960)

    “Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.”
    —George F. Will (b. 1941)