Distinguished Public Service

Famous quotes containing the words public and/or service:

    “Once, when lying in bed with no paper at hand, he began to sketch the idea for a new machine on the back of his wife’s nightgown. He asked her if she knew the figure he was drawing. “Yes,” she answered, “the figure of a fool.””
    —For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “The master class seldom lose a chance to insult a woman who has the ability for something besides service to his lordship.”
    —Caroline Nichols Churchill (1833–?)