Quartering Quotes

#1. By 1776 the American revolutionaries had defined "despotism" down to the level of taxing tea and quartering soldiers. At

Steven Pinker

#2. I love hanging and drawing and quartering
Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.

William Blake

#3. Utopians are heedless of methods. To render the human species happy, they are prepared to subject it to murder, torture, lethal injection, incineration, deportation, sterilization, quartering, lobotomy, electrocution, military invasion, bombing, etc.

Juan Rodolfo Wilcock

#4. The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling.

H.L. Mencken

#5. Twenty-eight men were on trial. If found guilty, they faced death by the grisly form of torture known as hanging, drawing and quartering. The most important of these were twenty-four who had sat as judges at the king's trial. Most of them had played other key roles in bringing the king to trial.

Don Jordan

#6. In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.

Greg Louganis

#7. Bubba was the one person who wouldn't even bat an eyelash that Nick was talking to an "imaginary" friend. Heck, he'd probably bring one of his own out to play, too.
~Nick

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. Procrastination robs the world of countless treasures.

Brian Rathbone

#9. maybe somebody finally shot the dog.

Dave Barry

#10. For some time I watch the coming of the night? Above is the glistening galaxy of childhood, now hidden in the Western world by air pollution and the glare of artificial light; for my children's children, the power, peace and healing of the night will be obliterated.

Peter Matthiessen

#11. Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

Viola Davis

#12. But it was Azriel who said, his voice like cold death, "Be careful how you speak about my High Lady." Surprise

Sarah J. Maas

#13. Social media is teaching us that everyone fucks up, everyone is stupid sometimes, and that this is probably part of being a thinking human. The one exception are those who participate in the self-righteousness Olympics and they often turn people who agree with them against 'em.

Joe Hill

#14. I said on the phone to my mother, "I think I'm going to write the story of the Burgess kids." "It's a good one," she agreed. "People will say it's not nice to write about people I know." My mother was tired that night. She yawned. "Well, you don't know them," she said. "Nobody ever knows anyone.

Elizabeth Strout

#15. Dictatorial government is more dangerous than lions!

Enock Maregesi

#16. I imagine that all Americans have a unique relationship in their individual present to their collective past and how that relationship might shape their identities and experiences.

Steve Cosson