decent quotes

The United States is the best and fairest and most decent nation on the face of the earth.

-Bush, George Herbert Walker
  Speech, May.

And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.'

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Rock, pt.1.

All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other peoples'. A few gifted individuals manage to do both.

-Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro
The Chronicles of Clovis,'The Match-Maker'.

The criminal law is no use to decent people.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Sir Patrick.The Doctor's Dilemma, act 3.

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