Quotes About Civil

For every person who died in the westward migration prior to the Civil War from Native Americans attacking, the stuff of American legends, thousands, maybe tens of thousands died from water holes polluted by cholera and typhoid . . . but that doesn't make for a good movie.

We as ambitious human beings can maintain self respect by influencing ourselves to behave as civil human beings and focus on our long term goals by not allowing others to take advantage of our lives.

In a thousand little ways, it seemed as though Grant was fated to fight this civil war. In battle, what galled Grant most was indecision. Once, an aide asked if he thought he was always right. "No!" Grant ripped back. "I am not, but in war anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong we shall soon find it out and can do the other thing. But not to decide… may rum everything.

Human rights and freedoms protect us against arbitrary government.

La guerre civile, c'est exactement ça : le triomphe des salauds. On les voit sortir de partout. On s'étonne même qu'il y en ait autant et qu'on ne les remarque pas plus d'habitude.

During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.

Teaching him to be civil and manly and cool In the face of danger. And then before I knew it The time came for him to go off to school. Off to school to be free of women's teaching, Into a world of men--at seven years old; Into a world where a mother's hands vainly reaching Will never again caress and comfort and hold.

Life is a civil right. Abortion is a civil wrong.

The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character.

We need to defend against weaknesses within and enemies without, using the tools of civil society and hard power. We don't have to pick one over the other.

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn't happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society.

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.

I think the answer to civil disorder in America, the answer to police problems in America, the answer to jail overcrowding and all the problems that we see is - the one answer is that government must go back to its people.

My father, for his part, was not a man to begrudge anyone a divergent opinion; he'd have been fine if I had written some articles disagreeing with his policies, or even given interviews, as long as I was respectful and civil.

Our policies should be to help develop civil society and increase contacts with people.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

The Catalan institutions and political parties have to be consistent, because they have the democratic legitimacy of the ballot box and they can't pass certain responsibilities on to civil society.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.

You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

There are too many countries where the values we take for granted in our civil servants simply do not exist. Seeing these values in action, applied with dedication by hardworking individuals, makes me proud to lead a service that is making life better for millions across Britain.

The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.