Peaceably Quotes
36 quotes by 34 authors
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So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind…
— Laurence Sterne
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That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of…
— William Penn
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I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best…
— Abraham Lincoln
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This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is my wish and the wishes of my people to live peaceably and quietly with you.
— Cornplanter
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To be able to live peaceably with hard and perverse persons, or with the disorderly, or with such as go contrary to us, is a…
— Thomas a Kempis
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The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In 1986, Tanton published an article in which he argued: `To govern is to populate ... Will the present majority peaceably hand over its political…
— John Tanton
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I've always been a big supporter of the Constitutional right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition government for redress of grievances. It's just…
— Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
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For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these…
— Sophocles
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The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and positive significance in…
— Michael Lang
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Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and…
— Clyde Kluckhohn
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I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true…
— Elizabeth Ann Seton
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Though we may be genetically wired for temporary happiness, we've also been gifted with the ability to recognize within ourselves a more profound and lasting…
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights when endangered by…
— Grover Cleveland
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Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study…
— Elihu Root
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Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of sXXXch, or the right of the people peaceably to XXXemble, and to peXXXion the government for…
— Marc Rotenberg
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The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.
— Anita Ekberg
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History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up…
— Mark Twain
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The gentleman cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.
— Henry Clay
Who Wrote These Peaceably Quotes
34 authors contributed a total of 36 Peaceably Quotes, led by these top contributors: