My opinion on such matters I must submit to the good of the state, as I have done on other occasions,-and particularly with regard to the authors and managers of the American war, with whom I have acted, both in office and in opposition, with great confidence and cordiality, though I thought many of their acts criminal and Impeachable.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
The truth is, that there is so much mirth, and so little of malice or imposition in his fictions, that they may for the most part be considered as mere strains of humour and exercises of wit, Impeachable only for defect, when that happens, of the quality from which they are principally derived.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith
The managers of the impeachment were far from consistent in their conception of the nature of Impeachable offenses.
"Union and Democracy"
Allen Johnson