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Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or cases:

    “Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.”
    —Joseph Ratzinger (b. 1927)

    “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)