State Policing

Famous quotes containing the words state and/or policing:

“A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“Some days your hat’s off to the full-time mothers for being able to endure the relentless routine and incessant policing seven days a week instead of two. But on other days, merely the image of this woman crafting a brontosaurus out of sugar paste and sheet cake for her two-year-old’s birthday drives a stake through your heart.”
—Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)