Famous quotes containing the words civil, law and/or courts:
“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)
“The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A day in thy courts is better than a thousand.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalms, 84:10.