I believe health care is a civil right.

Any health care funding plan that is just equitable civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.

In civilized life where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.

People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Let's face it - think of Africa and the first images that come to mind are of war poverty famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations which in their day were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

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.

The theoretical understanding of the world which is the aim of philosophy is not a matter of great practical importance to animals or to savages or even to most civilised men.

The three great elements of modern civilization Gun powder Printing and the Protestant religion.

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.