Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or actions:
“Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.”
—Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)
“History by apprising them [students] of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)