Civil Defence Sirens

Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or defence:

“Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list—the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)

“There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.”
—E.V. (Edward Verrall)