Betrayal Quote by Theodore Parker

Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.

— Cullen Hightower

High treason, when it is resistance to tyranny here below, has its origin in, and isfirst committed by, the powerthat makes and forever re-creates…

— Henry David Thoreau

America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

— Henry Rollins

“Treason the only crime defined in the Constitution. Tyranny as under the Stuart and Tudor kings characterized by the elimination of political dissent under…

— E.L. Doctorow

Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in…

— Josiah Royce

“Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United…

— Abraham Lincoln

“The Constitution certainly supposes that the crime of treason can be committed only by man, as an individual. It would be very curious to…

— Lysander Spooner

In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a battlefield -…

— Rand Paul

Treason is when legislators vote against homeland security measures because it goes against the wishes of their political or financial backers. Treason is the…

— Bill Maher

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 have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit.

— Carl Schurz