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Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer. -- Joseph Addison
The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves. -- Lewis Tappan
The time has come to end the deadly experiment of disarming peaceable, law-abiding citizens near schools. -- Steve Stockman
The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. -- Samuel Adams
It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies. -- Tony Snow
Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall. -- Elihu Root
The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company. -- William Shakespeare
The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown. -- Henry Walter Bates
For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life. -- Jonathan Mayhew
Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its military expenditure to zero, has no armed forces, and has reduced the inequality gap between rich and poor. -- Scilla Elworthy
It's never a good thing to see a government agency talk in secret about the need to 'control protestors' - especially when that agency is charged with protecting the homeland against terrorists, not nonviolent demonstrators exercising their First Amendment rights to peaceable dissent. -- Michael Hastings
Being about to land on the soil of North Carolina, the general commanding desires his soldiers to remember that they are here to support the Constitution and the laws, to put down rebellion, and to protect the persons and property of the loyal and peaceable citizens of the State. -- Ambrose Burnside
I think there's a lot of intelligence out there, but that's just my guess. Question is: Are they peaceable or hostile? You could say that the peaceable ones are just going to stay at home and play with their Nintendos, so if you do meet any of them, they might be hostile. -- Seth Shostak
Freedom of expression and freedom of peaceable assembly must remain sacrosanct. -- Bryant McGill
Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights. -- Thomas Jefferson
Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them. -- Junius
If we live in peace ourselves, we in turn may bring peace to others. A peaceable man does more good than a learned one. -- Thomas a Kempis
Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor. -- Christopher Hitchens
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. -- Henry David Thoreau
I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy. -- Frederick Douglass
The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable. -- Maximilien Robespierre
The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life. -- Thorstein Veblen

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