If the house is on fire, and the fireman shows up, you don't question his color or credentials. You don't send him back to the firehouse and say, 'Send somebody else.'
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Tonight I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.
Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations; why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code.
Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.
It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
If ever you are to be visited by the Holy Ghost, you should make certain you're sitting beside a fireman.
An order to fire on people that do not fire on you is a completely illegal order.
I did tell security to make sure you stay and watch him pretty closely.
What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, 'I'm going to protect all these strangers.'
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