Quotes About Civil

What do you call a snake who works for the government? A civil serpent!

The logical outcome of the Pro-Slavery party was the Southern Confederacy; the logical outcome of the Anti-Slavery party was the Republican party; the logical outcome of the conflict between the two was the Civil War.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. ... It is time now to write the next chapter-and to write it in the books of law.

the eight warrior cops and their chief are terminated before the civil trial, they would likely become hostile witnesses against the City.

The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty, when the state becomes lawless or corrupt

is perhaps true to say, not that civil liberty is the child of religious liberty, but that liberty, whether civil or religious, was the work often reluctantly, sometimes unconsciously, undertaken by communities of men who had an end higher than political, who refused to submit religion to politic arguments, who fought for ends never entirely utilitarian.

Not as much as it bothers me that you just grabbed me without even trying to warn me first. If you're trying to undo ages of prejudice, maybe you should start by acting civil.

Because of fear, people who have civil rights can't use them

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. They would be whatever they needed to be that day: information professionals, teachers, police, community organizers, computer technicians, historians, confidantes, clerks, social workers, storytellers, or, in this case, guardians of my peace.

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That's a personal evaluation, of course.

Free thought, free speech and a free press.

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.

Every generation has to protect every one of their rights, whether that's freedom of the press, freedom of speech, or freedom of faith. You have to remain diligent.

Democracy is the Freedom of Humanity in all aspects of Life.

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty

A healthy civil society and vibrant republic ultimately cannot survive without a properly functioning constitutional system.

However, why do so many loving parents, as part of the ruling generation, abandon the civil society for the growing tyranny of a voracious central government that steals their children's future, thus condemning their children and unborn generations to a dangerously precarious and unstable environment, despite a large majority acknowledging the national decline for which they blame politicians?

In modern America, the unraveling of the civil society had been subtly persistent but is now intensifying. Evidence of rising utopian statism—the allure of political demagogues and self-appointed masterminds peddling abstractions and fantasies in pursuit of a nonexistent paradisiacal society, and the concomitant accretion of governmental power in an increasingly authoritarian and centralized federal Leviathan—abounds.