Quotes About Civil

Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.

Virtually all of the civil laws in all of the world's societies are based on what humanity, in the earliest days, believed to be God's Law.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.

There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.

When any civil government steps outside the mandate authorized by God Almighty, then that government does not have any further claim over its citizens.

We must educate ourselves and others about our precious civil liberties to ensure that we never accept demands that we give up our Constitution so that the government can pretend to protect us.

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

I believe health care is a civil right.

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

I think the most important idea is to remember that there have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal.

Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.

Outside he hurried again, for he had several blocks to walk and the beer turned out to be no more than cool. He told himself he would remember next time to deal from the bottom - but the civil sirens sounded, surprising him with his silly private thought. That's what they blow them for. Thought is a national product, issued, like survival, on a day to day basis. There you go. Until tomorrow. When he understood this would be a long one today, he hurried on.

Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the decisions of our courts.