Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or courts:
“A mechanism of some kind stands between us and almost every act of our lives.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 3, ch. 2 (1962)
“With the gracious consent of the audience, you will be made to don the red tophatMa token phrase that the courts had evolved, whose true meaning was known to every schoolboy.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)