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!
Joseph Addison
Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
Douglas Jerrold
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!
Joseph Addison
Though those who are betrayed do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe.
William Shakespeare
This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
Thomas Dekker
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Sir John Harrington
The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
Aaron Hill
Some guard these traitors to the block of death, Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath.
William Shakespeare
Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
Lord Acton
There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.
George Eliot
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
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
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
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