Quotes About Truncheon

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

those who were intrusted with the command of the troops of the Republic in battle, were wont to resume the shepherd's staff when they laid down the truncheon, and, like the Roman dictators, to retire to complete equality with their fellow-citizens, from the eminence of military command to which their talents, and the call of their country, had raised them.