The stranger had crossed a sacred line. He had mentioned the men's mothers. Nothing could get him out of a beating now, even the fact that he was obviously a simpleton. Albeit a simpleton with a good vocabulary.

The battered walls of Fort Sumter were reinforced, and heavier caliber ordinance was mounted in the embrasures, doubling the firepower , […]

To Scriptures read they muſt their leaſure frame, / Then loath they will both luſt and wanton love; […]

In the Whedonverse (among other places) institutions are dangerous; communities can be life-giving.