German Civil Law

Famous quotes containing the words german, civil and/or law:

    She had exactly the German way: whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of the Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

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

    The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)