Civil Cases

Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or cases:

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

“I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge on his own ground, and, in cases of the highest importance, it is of no consequence whether a man breaks a human law or not. Let lawyers decide trivial cases.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)