Impeachment

"It is by this tribunal that statesmen [are tried] not upon the niceties of a narrow jurisprudence but upon the enlarged and solid principles of morality."
        --Edmund Burke

"[Imeachable conduct is] misconduct by public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust."
        --Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #65

"The prosecution [of impeachments], will seldom fail to agitate the passions of the whole community, and to divide it into parties more or less friendly or inimical to the accused. The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust, and they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself."
        --Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #65

"The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. The person of the King of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable: There is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable, no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution."
        --Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #65

"Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow."
        --Thomas Jefferson

"A superpower should be able to walk and chew up a president at the same time."
        --Williams Safire