Civil Servants

Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or servants:

“A man’s real and deep feelings are surely those which he acts upon when challenged, not those which, mellow-eyed and soft-voiced, he spouts in easy times.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 2, ch. 13 (1962)

“If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)