John Buchanan Robinson - It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; an...

John Buchanan Robinson Zitate

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.

John Buchanan Robinson

Bewertung: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5,0 Sterne

Deutsche Übersetzung

Es war die Armee des Königs, das Volk des Königs, die Steuern des Königs; und derjenige, der die Rechtmäßigkeit des königlichen Vorrechtes in Frage stellte, von seinem Volk ohne Rückgabe oder Buchführung abzunehmen, wurde als strafbar angesehen und fühlte sich als Verbrecher des höchsten Verbrechens der Untreue schuldig.

← Vorheriges Zitat

Nächstes Zitat →

Ähnliche Autoren

Alexander Hamilton Barry Goldwater Benjamin Franklin Hillary Clinton Hubert H. Humphrey Mitt Romney Patrick Henry Robert Kennedy

Ähnliche Zitate

We could build just about anything that you could dream of. But that's not the question. The thing that Beats provides us is a head start. They provide us with incredible people that don't grow on trees.

Tim Cook

Every great leader knows that his or her role comes with responsibility for those who follow him or her, and in ensuring they provide value in return for their loyalty.

Lewis Howes

There are groups of haters who always try to malign my image. They question my character and make all kinds of false announcements. It hurts because they assume things and without any proof in hand.

Divyanka Tripathi

If the king refuses the constitution, I shall oppose him; if he accepts it, I shall defend him; and the day on which he gave himself up as my prisoner secured me more fully to his service than if he had promised me half his kingdom.

Marquis de Lafayette

The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he provoked - really, forced - difficult thinking about consequential matters and internal questioning of one's own assumptions, often without quick or clear resolution.

Glenn Greenwald

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

Dustin Hoffman

People don't want to have to justify their privileges; they don't want to have to justify having access to the power and resource that wealth brings. And by not talking about it, they are able to hold onto their power without being questioned, and I think that makes them feel more secure.

Jamie Johnson

A sad person who is so involved with his sadness that he mistakes it for reality will have a hard time seeing himself as anything but sad. For him, the sadness is not a feeling that he experiences - it is him.

Mary Gaitskill

Logan was talking about the Civil War, which claimed the lives of more than 500,000 Americans. He wanted to provide Civil War veterans with a day to pay respects to their fellow soldiers who did not live to see the end of the war, without losing a day's pay.

Doc Hastings