Civil Service Reform

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

“A mechanism of some kind stands between us and almost every act of our lives.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 3, ch. 2 (1962)

“The gods’ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“... most reform movements in our country have been cursed by a lunatic fringe and have mingled sound ideas for social progress with utopian nonsense.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)