Famous quotes containing the words german, civil and/or law:
“I dont want to shoot any Englishmen. I never saw one til I came up here. But I suppose most of them never saw a German til they came up here.”
—Maxwell Anderson (18881959)
“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves.”
—Edmund Burke (17291797)
“The law is not a light for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.”
—Robert Bolt (19241995)