341 Quotes About Civil

  • Author Don Peritz
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    It was a combination of information garnered from the criminal investigation from day one and information that they were able to pull from the civil transcripts.

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  • Author Emmeline Pankhurst
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    When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.

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  • Author Jefferson Powell
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    The department has a lively and strong sense of tradition and even if one was disposed to ignore that, it would be awfully hard to do that in the teeth of all these very smart civil servants who say 'No, this is not what we do, or this is the position the department has always taken,'

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  • Author John Price
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    At this point, I can't really speculate whether this is a civil rights incident or a hate crime,

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  • Author Jonathan Powell
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    I do not think that war is always wrong: sometimes it is necessary to stop a dictator, prevent massive human-rights abuses, or expel an invader. But I have also seen that in the modern world, civil wars are the greatest threat to humanitarian security.

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  • Author Rand Paul
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    Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot.

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  • Author Rand Paul
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    The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

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  • Author Rick Perry
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    We are a resilient country. We've been through a Civil War; we've been through two World Wars. We've been through a Great Depression; we even made it through Jimmy Carter! We will make it through the Obama years!

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