Civil Decorations of Hong Kong - Government Flying Service Medal For Meritorious Service (G.M.S.M.)

Famous quotes containing the words government, flying, service and/or meritorious:

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)

“English literature is a flying fish.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)

“His character as one of the fathers of the English language would alone make his works important, even those which have little poetical merit. He was as simple as Wordsworth in preferring his homely but vigorous Saxon tongue, when it was neglected by the court, and had not yet attained to the dignity of a literature, and rendered a similar service to his country to that which Dante rendered to Italy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)