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Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society. (Quote by - Mike Rogers)

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage . . . to listen to his own goodness. (Qutoe by - Pablo Casals)

Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. (Quote by - W. C. Fields)

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)

No law reaches it, but all right- minded people observe it. (Qutoe by - Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort)

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? (Quote by - Dennis Prager)

The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense. (Quote by - Mary McAleese)

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy. (Quote by - Michael Johns)

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength. (Quote by - Meir Kahane)

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)

HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country. (Quote by - Alphonso Jackson)

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough. (Quote by - Harold MacMillan )

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. (Quote by - Margaret Cavendish)

The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message to the broadcast industry that Alabama families, like the rest of American families, have had enough. (Quote by - Mike Rogers)

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