Treason Quotes

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

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

Pity is treason.

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.

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.

This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

If this be treason, make the most of it!

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.

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

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

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

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

Bad literature is a form of treason.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape.

Ingratitude is treason to mankind.

Disunion by force is treason.

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.

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.