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I am not going to kill you. First I'm going to beat on you for a few hours.
Then I might move on to the cutting. — Marc Guggenheim

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it. — Samuel Johnson

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay. — Nicholas Kristof

When politicians and civil servants hear the word culture they feel for their blue pencils. — Lionel Esher

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn. — Daniel Webster

It's hard to keep on being civil when they ask you such annoying questions. — Olivia De Havilland

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict — Juan Williams

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

My God! My God! What will the country say? — Abraham Lincoln

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party. — Abraham Lincoln

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

As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city. — Gore Vidal

Let us strive on to finish the work we are in. — Abraham Lincoln

Individual believers are not to usurp the role of civil government and judge people who are offensive. — Max Anders

While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large part, because of the civility of Grant and Lee. — Douglas Brinkley

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind. — William Lyon Phelps

There never will be anything more interesting than that American Civil War. — Gertrude Stein

Meaningful progress toward social justice cannot be made in sclerotic education systems that put adults' job security before children's civil rights. — Arthur C. Brooks

Marriage is a civil right. If you don't want gay people to marry in your church, good for you. But you can't say they can't marry in your city. — Julian Bond

I am Serene-Heart-in-the-Chaos-of-Battle. Keep a civil tongue in your head or lose it — Sarah Rees Brennan

A war between Europeans is a civil war. — Victor Hugo

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different. — Daniel Woodrell

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution. — Indira Gandhi

I'm in the infantry. What you just showed me, for us that's not even good pornography. — Henry V. O'Neil

The most important civil liberty ... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death ... — John Howard

And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom. — Rand Paul

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement. — Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort. — Edmund Burke

The crucified Christ has become a stranger to the civil religion of the First World and to that world's Christianity. — Jurgen Moltmann

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe. — Mark Shields

I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War. — Elbridge Gerry

I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop. — Macklemore

Reading is the true foundation of our civil liberties. — Patricia O'Hara

The war, the American Civil War of 1861-1865, would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits. — Abraham Lincoln

If they don't close these [nuclear] reactors down, we'll have civil war in five years. — Ralph Nader

A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left. — William O. Douglas

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

All this has been my fault. — Robert E.Lee

Accepting yourself as you are is an act of civil disobedience. — Francesca Martinez

The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate. — John Locke

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

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

Egypt now is a real civil state. It is not theocratic, it is not military. It is democratic, free, constitutional, lawful and modern. — Mohammed Morsi

The human race is a family. Men are brothers. All wars are civil wars. — Adlai E. Stevenson II

I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west. — Rodney Dangerfield

Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back?
That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act? — Ras Kass

Havana is like Beirut, without having gone through the civil war to achieve the destruction. — Theodore Dalrymple

The Civil War always moves me. — Suzanne Weyn

Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our civil rights and our individual liberties. — Frank Lautenberg

ACLU has become eccentric and destructive. — Newt Gingrich

Their object is disunion. — Andrew Jackson

I believe health care is a civil right. — Dennis Kucinich

For me, it was definitely an education in being grateful. And appreciating the civil liberties we have today, the natural liberties we have at home. — Aldis Hodge

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty. — William Graham Sumner

If anybody ever flied to the Moon, the very next day Trippe will ask the Civil Aeronautics Board to authorize regular service. — James M. Landis

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. — Abraham Lincoln

You can never know where you are going unless you know where you have been. — Amelia Boynton Robinson

Occasionally, a re-enactment is a fine thing. I love Civil War re-enactments. — John Lydon

Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil. — Winston Churchill

German Emancipation Edict of 1822 guaranteed Jews in Germany all civil rights enjoyed by Germans. — Anonymous

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites. — Edmund Burke

Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union. — James Madison

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil. — John Dryden

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials. — Bum Phillips

The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience. — Mahatma Gandhi

The American Civil Liberties Union, has helped neutralize the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our legal system by seeking new legal precedents. — Bill Bright

You can't put civil rights on the ballot. — Jesse Ventura

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights ... it had to be some silly little Communist. — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society. — Christina Baldwin

Thing about civilization, it's what keeps people civil. You get rid of one, you can't count on the other. — James S.A. Corey

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. — Pope Benedict XVI

Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals. — Ann Coulter

[Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them — James Howe

An act of a dictatorship is an act of a civil war - Freedom to the people. — Jim

America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties. — Dennis Kucinich

Democracy is disruptive ... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption. — Naomi Wolf

We wanted black power to be all things to all people. — Cleveland Sellers

When people get out of jail, it is not easy for them to find a job. It is not easy for them to return to civil society. — Bernie Sanders

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody. — Sammy Davis Jr.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful. — John Lewis

Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence. — Mahatma Gandhi

What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will. — Paulette Jiles

In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again. — P. J. O'Rourke

Stand by General Burnside as you have stood by me and all will be well. — George B. McClellan

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. — Stephen Ambrose

I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools. — Jack Kemp

An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment. — Hugo Black

We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants. — Michael O'Leary

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha. — Mahatma Gandhi

I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this. — John Kasich

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war. — Victor Hugo

In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people behave at their worst. — Edna Buchanan

Jason smiled. The sound of wings was louder now, the fluttering of angels come to carry him home. — Robert Ferrigno

Well, it made you famous. — John S. Mosby

I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it. — Abraham Lincoln

I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere. — Allan Dare Pearce

The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation's security. — Jeff Sessions

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. — Howard Zinn