Top Civil Quotes
You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.
George H. W. Bush
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Francois Fenelon
No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
Andrew Jackson
Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.
Ann Coulter
It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.
Hannah Arendt
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The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
George Catlin 
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We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.
George Crook 
37% of people like this quote
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
Ezra Stiles 
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So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.
Robert Barclay 
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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.
Margaret Cavendish 
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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
Andrew Young 
20% of people like this quote
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
Ida B. Wells 
11% of people like this quote
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