Civil Service Reform

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

“The New Year is the season in which custom seems more particularly to authorize civil and harmless lies, under the name of compliments. People reciprocally profess wishes which they seldom form and concern which they seldom feel.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers.”
—Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Wellington (1769–1852)

“Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)