Civil Quotes

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.

Still, it's clear that there are lots of people out there who are uncomfortable [about racism]. The Civil War was a long time ago but there are aspects of it that remain unsettled.

I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.

Civil liberties, good. Lawyers, bad.

I don't advocate civil disobedience. I do advocate the role of an informed citizen to try to overturn when a court makes a mistake and gets an issue wrong.

Teach him to deny himself.

It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.

He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest memory of our world.

[Cesar] Vallejo was at least metaphorically killed by fascist forces, in the sense that he wore himself out raising funds for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and got sick and died.

In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the United States over the period of the last several months.

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.

Every country ended slavery without civil war; US could have.

Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.

Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.

Barack Obama has come to divide, and he succeeded. This country has never been more divided. Well, throw out the Civil War, but in the modern times this country has never been more divided.

Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that have been offer'd to private subjects.

There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.

The British civil service ... is a beautifully designed and effective braking mechanism.

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.

Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.

If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force.

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.

The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.

The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

The government should always be the one defending civil liberties.

When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But also the fundamental right to privacy.

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

You want one civil war, brah?

The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction

I'm just not sure I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties.

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

If you can't find anybody else, then I'll go. So, they couldn't find anybody else. So, I went.

Syria is already in the grips of a civil war, unfortunately enough, and Egypt is moving in that direction. We would like to see the Egyptian people avoid this fate.

We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.

If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights, we give the socialists a freer hand to attack our property.

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.

I think that for anybody who has worked in the civil society, government bureaucracy moves very very slowly.

The post-war loss of Churchill may have damaged the Western world with the same impact as the post-civil war world was damaged by the loss of Lincoln.

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.

I favor massive civil disobedience, among other things. It is not the only thing that is used to protest any grievance in society. But it is one of the most effective under certain conditions.