Civil

Famous quotes containing the word civil:

“We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“Children’s liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (b. 1939)

“Come, civil night,
Thou sober-suited matron all in black.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)