Famous quotes containing the words civil, law and/or courts:
“A war between Europeans is a civil war.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude; and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“A day in thy courts is better than a thousand.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalms, 84:10.