Quotes about Civil

Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: If the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.

Respect for truth and for other human beings of different opinions formed the foundation of a civil society in which one might disagree graciously and might reason together civilly and productively.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.

The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your golden days are at an end. You have nothing but trouble before you... Your liberties will be lost.

The crucified Christ has become a stranger to the civil religion of the First World and to that world's Christianity.

Almost all the prosperity of a public society and civil community does, under God, depend on their rulers. They are like the main springs or wheels in a machine that keep every part in their due motion, and are in the body politic, as in the vitals in the body natural, and as the pillars and the foundation in a building.

Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.