Treason Quotes · Page 5

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

— John Sergeant Wise

Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe

— William Shakespeare

I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.

— Cato the Younger

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep; And in his simple show he harbours treason.”

— William Shakespeare

What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?

— Laini Taylor

“The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.”

— T.S. Eliot

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

— John Harington

I just wish I could have all this and stand up to her a little. Rose would." "Rose would have gotten herself…

— Richelle Mead

Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame,…

— William Shakespeare

So do your duty, boys, and join with prideServe your country in her suicideFind the flags so you can wave goodbyeBut just…

— Phil Ochs

I'm very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning's story, the army intelligence officer who's being held as a detainee…

— Eion Bailey

I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry…

— Barry Hannah

I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason…

— Cornel West

I nodded. "Yup. What I did was tantamount to treason in their eyes." "I don't know what 'tantamount' means, but it sounds…

— Richelle Mead

The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Subversion can only be treason if government is legitimate.  When a government has broken international law and its own internal laws it…

— G. Russell Overton

“And the dead leaves lie huddled and still, No longer blown hither and thither; The last lone aster is gone; The flowers…

— Robert Frost

Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in…

— Ezra Pound

“Treason . . . is only a word. When two princes fight for a chair where only one may sit, great lords…

— George R.R. Martin

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates…

— Anonymous

[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest…

— Murray Rothbard

My guard will run you through if he catches you looking at my face," said Arianna. "I don't think so. I think…

— Mary Hoffman

We all like to think that the line between good and evil is impermeable--that people who do terrible things, such as commit…

— Philip Zimbardo

I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for…

— Jane Fonda

Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.

— John Harington

“There is a sort of mental treason That smothers dreams outside of reason”

— Mike Corbett

“At best, the line between historical fact and govrnmental fiction is cloudy; in cases of treason it tends to vanish entirely.”

— Lacey Baldwin Smith

In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.

— Edmund Spenser

No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Peter Brimelow

Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.

— Terry Pratchett

To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus.

— Anonymous

I'm wary of a certain human nature. More than anything, I fear treason.

— Mylene Farmer

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

— Hannah More

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

— Ovid

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

— Rebecca West

“in those days his treason stood still to be proved. This is not Italy, boy. We have courts of law.”

— Hilary Mantel

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Kushirikiana na maadui wa nchi yetu ni hatia ya kosa la uhaini. Adhabu yake ni kifo, au kifungo cha maisha.”

— Enock Maregesi