I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
Ronald Reagan

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
Ronald Reagan

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.
Barack Obama

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Francois Fenelon

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.
Andrew Jackson

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
Herodotus

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
Edmund Burke

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund Burke

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
Morgan Freeman

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
Jorge Luis Borges

When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
Carroll Quigley

A war between Europeans is a civil war.
Victor Hugo

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Victor Hugo

And we love to dance, especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede.
Dick Gregory

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
Tony Blair

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.
Henry Knox

I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.
Stephen Harper

Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful.
Sarah Palin