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If this be treason, make the most of it! -- Patrick Henry
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. -- Edward Coke
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. -- T. S. Eliot
Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason. -- John Harington
All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears. -- Rebecca West
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor? -- Frank Moore Colby
Cynicism is intellectual treason. -- Norman Cousins
Bad literature is a form of treason. -- Joseph Brodsky
Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason. -- Kenneth Patchen
The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious. -- Miguel de Cervantes
He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor. -- Plutarch
No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason. -- John Harington
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him. -- Aaron Hill
Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe -- William Shakespeare
Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope. -- William Shakespeare
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths. -- George Bernard Shaw
Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might! -- Charles Lamb
The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God. -- James Russell Lowell
Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors. -- William Shakespeare
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence. -- William Shakespeare
Treason seldom dwells with courage. -- Walter Scott
Treason is a matter of dates. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Treason pleases, but not the traitor. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest. -- John Dryden
Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity? -- Noel Ignatiev
Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided. -- John le Carre
Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God. -- Jonathan Edwards
Treason is like diamonds there is nothing to be made by the small trader -- Douglas Jerrold
Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty. -- Noah Webster
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further. -- William Shakespeare
Cue for Treason,' by Geoffrey Trease, radicalized my young girl brain and made me want to be a gender-bending, sonnet-writing anarchist. It really made something roar to life inside of me. -- Miriam Toews
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated? -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third â?? ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] â?? may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it. -- Patrick Henry
Treason is a strong word, but not too strong to characterize the situation in which the Senate is the eager, resourceful, and indefatigable agent of interests as hostile to the American people as any invading army could be. -- David Graham Phillips
I love discourse. I'm dying to have my mind changed. I'm probably the only liberal who read Treason, by Ann Coulter. I want to know, you understand? I like listening to everybody. This to me is the elixir of life. -- Jack Nicholson
Treason is when legislators vote against homeland security measures because it goes against the wishes of their political or financial backers. Treason is the fact that, as a terrorist, you could still buy a gun in this country because the NRA lobby is so strong. -- Bill Maher
Pity is treason. -- Maximilien Robespierre
Disunion by force is treason. -- Andrew Jackson
Ingratitude is treason to mankind. -- James Thomson
Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls. -- Harold Coffin
This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate. -- Thomas Dekker
America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape. -- William Blum
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. -- Samuel Johnson
The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice. -- Thomas Francis Meagher
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
I'm very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning's story, the army intelligence officer who's being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason. -- Eion Bailey
The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all. -- Josiah Royce
I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions. -- Cornel West
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
After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol. -- Adam Michnik
We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason. -- Philip Kearny
I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason. -- Barry Hannah
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
There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified. -- Reza Aslan
I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason. -- Antonio Munoz Molina
There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon them on account of their birth in the country, or that they will be judged by any different rule, on the subject of treason, than persons of foreign birth. -- Lysander Spooner
Sin is cosmic treason -- R. C. Sproul
Reason is 6/7 of treason. -- James Thurber
Any appeasement of tyranny is treason. -- William Allen White
I love treason but hate a traitor. -- Julius Caesar
Writing anything is a treason of sorts. -- Anthony Bourdain
All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished. -- Amelia Barr
When war comes, reason is regarded as treason. -- I. F. Stone
All that harms labor is treason to America. -- Abraham Lincoln
Truth is treason in the empire of lies. -- Ron Paul
Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent. -- Ayn Rand
Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence. -- Edmund Burke
In a democratic society, the only treason is silence. -- Anna Quindlen
Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason. -- R. C. Sproul
Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent." -Kahlan -- Terry Goodkind
To break training without permission is an act of treason. -- John Heisman
We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason. -- Benjamin Disraeli
In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place. -- Philip Sidney
Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty. -- Richard Cushing
John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection. -- John Sergeant Wise
To speak of atrocious crimes in mild language is treason to virtue. -- Edmund Burke
The people of our state will no longer tolerate advocates of treason. -- George Smathers
The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates. -- Alexandre Dumas
I think Bush's immigration proposal is treason and he should be impeached. -- Peter Brimelow
The subject of Citizenfour, Edward Snowden, could not be here for some treason. -- Neil Patrick Harris
The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I'm wary of a certain human nature. More than anything, I fear treason. -- Mylene Farmer
The first ape who became a man thus committed treason against his own kind. -- Mikhail Turovsky
Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self. -- Terry Goodkind
There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good. -- George Eliot
The rise of Trump is a repudiation of 30 years of bipartisan treason and failure. -- Roger Stone
To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus. -- Charles Spurgeon
More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation. -- H. L. Mencken
If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you'll eventually be accused of treason. -- Mort Sahl
To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself. -- Brandon Sanderson
In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate. -- Edmund Spenser
What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it? -- Laini Taylor
To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan" -- Terry Goodkind
To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan -- Terry Goodkind
The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries. -- Thomas Jefferson
We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit. -- Carl Schurz
One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery. -- Grant Morrison
Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that. -- George R. R. Martin
Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason. -- Terry Pratchett
Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade. -- Aaron Hill
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason. -- Daryl Gates
Love is a spy who is plotting treason, In league with that warm, red rebel, the Heart. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
She who resists as though she would not win, By her own treason falls an easy prey. -- Ovid
Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority. -- R. C. Sproul
From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason. -- Lord Acton
No owl is afraid of the night, no snake of the swamp and no traitor of the treason! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket. -- Steven Pressfield
I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason... -- Cato the Younger
As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not. -- Samuel Laman Blanchard
Call it peace or call it treason / call it love or call it reason / but I ain't marching anymore -- Phil Ochs
There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth -- Lord Byron
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Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance. -- Cullen Hightower
This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Only In America can a renowned and devoted terrorism supporter like Peter King be the arbiter of national security and treason. -- Glenn Greenwald

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