25 Quotes on Treason

• John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.

  Author: John Wise

• All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

  Author: Rebecca West

• Ingratitude is treason to mankind.

  Author: James Thomson

• The people of our state will no longer tolerate advocates of treason.

  Author: George Smathers

• 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.

  Author: Josiah Royce

• No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.

  Author: Josiah Royce

• Pity is treason.

  Author: Maximilien Robespierre

• Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

  Author: Ovid

• The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

  Author: Thomas Meagher

• 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.

  Author: Emile Lahoud

• 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.

  Author: Philip Kearny

• 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.

  Author: Samuel Johnson

• Disunion by force is treason.

  Author: Andrew Jackson

• 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.

  Author: Kurt Huber

• If this be treason, make the most of it!

  Author: Patrick Henry

• Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.

  Author: John Harington

• The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.

  Author: Juan Goytisolo

• 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.

  Author: Stephen Fry

• Cynicism is intellectual treason.

  Author: Norman Cousins

• Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

  Author: Frank Colby

• Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

  Author: Edward Coke

• Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

  Author: Harold Coffin

• Bad literature is a form of treason.

  Author: Joseph Brodsky

• I think Bush's immigration proposal is treason and he should be impeached.

  Author: Peter Brimelow

• But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

  Author: Charles Bass

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