Quotes of Peaceable - somelinesforyou

“ People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. ”

- George Orwell

“ So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him — pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it? ”

- Laurence Sterne

“ 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

“ If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution. ”

- Henry David Thoreau
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