decent quotes

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

- George Herbert Walker Bush
  Speech, May.

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

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  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.

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