Civil Servants

Famous quotes containing the words civil servants, civil and/or servants:

    Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list—the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
    Karl Marx (1818–1883)

    Come, civil night,
    Thou sober-suited matron all in black.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)