Treason Quotes

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

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.

Josiah Royce

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

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

Daryl Gates

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

George Eliot

Some guard these traitors to the block of death, Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath.

William Shakespeare

The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.

Aaron Hill

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

Sir John Harrington

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

Thomas Dekker

Though those who are betrayed do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe.

William Shakespeare

Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.

Douglas Jerrold

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

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

There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth.

Lord Byron

Do not teach treason to your friends and to other seekers. Dress and manners have become polished now; but the inner man has deteriorated in virtue and faith!

Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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