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I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.
- Hillary Clinton
If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society.
- Nelson Mandela
When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.
- George Washington
In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.
- Al Gore
It lays down a   clear distinction between spiritual and civil government, in order to   inform us that outward subjection does not prevent us from having   within us a conscience free in the sight of God.
- John Calvin
The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.
- John Wesley
The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.
- Thomas Jefferson
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.
- Thomas Jefferson
Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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
But being ruined by taxes is not the worst you have to fear. What security would you have for your lives? How can any of you be sure you would have the free enjoyment of your religion long? Would you put your religion in the power of any set of men living? Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fail of course.
- Alexander Hamilton