Famous quotes containing the words meritorious, public and/or service:
“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 (17491832)
“Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
“The masochist: I send my tormentor hurrying hither and thither in the service of my suffering and desire.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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