Quotes About Civil

I am very respectful and always have been.

I've always been a respectful kind of guy.

But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?

I respect the Forces... but civil services also have a contribution to make. They are there to bridge administration with Forces. They are critical, and I give credit to them. I don't claim to have done miracles in bridging it, but I have just said the two lines can go parallel.

The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.

Millones de personas en el mundo quieren el socialismo, pero no desean pasar por la tragedia de una guerra civil para alcanzarlo» me dijo en una entrevista en 1972.

The absence of war did not mean that the vacuum would necessarily be replaced by peace. In the no man's land between Armistice and the Treaty of Versailles, Europe revolted and Britain faced chaos as the civil unrest of wartime spread.

departments headed by ministers and staffed by civil servants.

In Upper Canada, during an emergency, individual civil liberties are not a matter of pressing concern. Individualism, after all, is an American concept, "liberty" a Yankee word.

A vital democracy requires an informed electorate, civil discourse, and bold thinking.

We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death.

Our obligation to fight pollution traces the roots of its persuasion to that same moral mountaintop from which my father lent his voice to the voiceless. The pursuit of civil equality in health helped build our environmental laws.

As the remaining voices for civil disobedience are suppressed, the political spectrum narrows even further.

People need to make their voices heard in an orderly fashion.

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

Thoreau's declaration in "Civil Disobedience": "I heartily accept the motto—'That government is best which governs least.

the most alarming fact about what happened in Salem in 1692 is the sure conviction of the civil authorities that extraordinary means were justified because of the dire threat posed to the sleepy village of Salem—"the Rendezvous of Devils," as one panic-stricken preacher put it, "where they Muster their infernal sources."14

He confined the Knowledge of governing within very narrow Bounds; to common Sense and Reason, to Justice and Lenity, to the Speedy Determination of Civil and criminal Causes; with some other obvious Topicks which are not worth considering.

Reading . . . is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition.

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

I am a passionate civil libertarian.

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.