Civil Service Reform

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

    “Since the Civil War its six states have produced fewer political ideas, as political ideas run in the Republic, than any average county in Kansas or Nebraska.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as well as her own.”
    —Anita Loos (1888–1981)

    “... the opportunity offered by life to women is far in excess of any offered to men. To be the inspiration is more than to be the tool. To create the world, a greater thing than to reform it.”
    —Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)