Both of them made a rather negative contribution to the decencies of public life.
Our supporters look to us to protect those decencies, not to destroy them.
Where does responsibility lie for this proposed outrage on the elementary decencies of our political and public life?
To be poor is to be excluded not only from the graces but also from the very decencies of life.
Let us have the decencies of life for these people.
In fact, we were supposed to be quite indifferent to the decencies and amenities of life.
They are the enemy, too, of the political decencies that we cherish in this country.
If the normal decencies, restraints and courtesies of society are undermined, then in the end everyone loses.
