Civil Service Affairs

Famous quotes containing the words civil, service and/or affairs:

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

    “We too are ashes as we watch and hear
    The psalm, the sorrow, and the simple praise
    Of one whose promised thoughts of other days
    Were such as ours, but now wholly destroyed,
    The service record of his youth wiped out,
    His dream dispersed by shot, must disappear.”
    —Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)

    “In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.”
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)