Civil
Pertaining to a city or state, or to a citizen in his relations to his fellow citizens or to the state; within the city or state.
Subject to government; reduced to order; civilized; not barbarous; -- said of the community.
Performing the duties of a citizen; obedient to government; -- said of an individual.
Having the manners of one dwelling in a city, as opposed to those of savages or rustics; polite; courteous; complaisant; affable.
Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from military, ecclesiastical, or official state.
Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit distinct from criminal proceedings.
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Civil Quotations
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
Civil Translations
civil in Dutch is civiel
civil in French is civil
civil in Italian is civico
civil in Latin is domesticus, civilis
civil in Spanish is burgues, civil
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