Civil Aviation Authority

Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or authority:

    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)

    At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
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