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.
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.
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.
Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor."--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
Though those who are betrayed do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe.
No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.
This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
Some guard these traitors to the block of death, Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath.
Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape.
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.
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.
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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 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.
The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.
Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal.
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