Civil Institutions Quotes
- Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for… — William Graham Sumner
- As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to whoever arranges to… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- To embarrass justice by multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, seem to be the opposite rocks on which all civil… — Samuel Johnson
- In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they… — Ezra Stiles
- Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards… — Ralph Waldo Emerson