Distinguished Public Service

Famous quotes containing the words public and/or service:

    “All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “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)