Civil Quotes

They make solitude, which they call peace.

But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.

Then the people won’t trust in them – and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?…Was ever anything so civil?

I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody’s civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.

As to the origin of civil Societies or Governments; the Author of our Being, has given Man a Nature to be fitted for, and disposed to Society.

The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there’s a reason for that – the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent – No Child Left Behind.

The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world – right after the Civil War.