secret police

Noun

Meaning

a police force that operates in secrecy (usually against persons suspected of treason or sedition)

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Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces. Richard Perle

The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way. George W. Bush

All fathers and mothers, in all societies, want their children to be educated, and live free from poverty and violence. No people on Earth yearn to be oppressed, or aspire to servitude, or eagerly await the midnight knock of the secret police. George W. Bush

One of the difficulties of being the good guys is that even open societies have to have secret police, and secret police turn toward repression as a compass points north. Sheri S. Tepper

Tax crimes should be investigated by the tax bureau, not through secret police detention. Ai Weiwei

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. Tony Blair

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