Sentences with phrase «peaceable citizens»

In Girard's words: «The metamorphosis from peaceable citizens into raging beasts is too terrifying and too transitory for the community to accept it as issuing from within itself.

He knew it existed, as we know that crime and abominations exist; he had heard of it as a peaceable citizen in a town hears of battles, famines, and floods, and yet knows nothing of what these things mean — though, indeed, he may have been mixed up in a street row, have gone without his dinner once, or been soaked to the skin in a shower.

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So we must drag the Second Amendment into this century; a citizen may only possess the kinds of «well - regulated» armaments that might reasonably be used by a peaceable civilian for lawful purposes in modern society.