High Treason Quotes

#1. Suppose, for instance, that the President of the United States has committed the crime of high treason; the House of Representatives impeaches him, and the Senate degrades him; he must then be tried by a jury, which alone can deprive him of his liberty or his life.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#2. I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.

Stephen Fry

#3. I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason.

Jane Fonda

#4. There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000.

Emile Lahoud

#5. We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

Benjamin Disraeli

#6. A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Kurt Huber

#7. There is only one penalty for high treason: for a man, to be hanged, cut down alive and eviscerated, or for a woman, to be burned. The king may vary the sentence to decapitation; only poisoners are boiled alive.

Hilary Mantel

#8. Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.

Cullen Hightower

#9. To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

Hannah More

#10. If it can't be proven that mountaintop removal mining is safe, we shouldn't allow it to continue.

John Yarmuth

#11. Knowledge creates fear of God

Imam Ali

#12. The third note in a chord is what depicts whether it's major or minor. Rhythm and Blues hardly ever uses it because it means that the melody is free to move between major and minor because you're not clashing with the third being depicted one way or the other.

Robert Palmer

#13. So while dueling may have begun as a response to high crimes - to treachery, treason, and adultery - by 1900 it had tiptoed down the stairs of reason, until they were being fought over the tilt of a hat, the duration of a glance, or the placement of a comma. In

Amor Towles

#14. I listen to every thing, all kinds of stuff. I've been obsessed with the Nas and Damian Marley record, 'Distant Relatives.' I feel like a lot of people haven't heard it, and it's amazing.

Eve Jihan Jeffers

#15. They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher.

S.A. Tawks

#16. The highest honor in the church is not government but service.

John Calvin

#17. What Now? Talk a walk Start your swipe file Go to the library Buy a notebook and use it Get yourself a calendar Start your logbook Give a copy of this book away Start a blog Take a nap

Austin Kleon