Treason Quotes

I love treason but hate a traitor. (Julius Caesar)
Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent. View quote
Ayn Rand
Cynicism is intellectual treason. View quote
Norman Cousins
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. View quote
T. S. Eliot
Truth is treason in the empire of lies. View quote
Ron Paul
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season. View quote
Robert Frost
Caesar had his Brutus; Charles the First, his Cromwelland George the Third (Treason, cried the Speaker) ... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it. View quote
Patrick Henry
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. View quote
Edward Coke
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor? View quote
Frank Moore Colby
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. View quote
John Harington (inventor)
Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design. (Kakuzo Okakura)
We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit. View quote
Carl Schurz
As for myself, my course is clear. A British subject I was born - a British subject I will die. With my utmost effort, with my latest breath, will I oppose the ‘veiled treason' which attempts by sordid means and mercenary proffers to lure our people from their allegiance. View quote
John A. Macdonald
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture. View quote
Ayn Rand
I am not yet born; forgive me For the sins that in me the world shall commit, my words When they speak me, my thoughts when they think me, My treason engendered by traitors beyond me, My life when they murder by means of my Hands, my death when they live me. View quote
Louis MacNeice
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue. View quote
Edmund Burke
PENSION - An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country. View quote
Samuel Johnson
But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason. View quote
John Knox
They say you better listen to the voice of reason But they don't give you any choice 'cause they think that it's treason. So you had better do as you are told. You better listen to the radio. View quote
Elvis Costello
In monarchy the crime of treason may admit of being pardoned or lightly punished, but the man who dares rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death. View quote
Samuel Adams
All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears. (Rebecca West)
Call it peace or call it treason, Call it love or call it reason, But I ain't marching anymore! View quote
Phil Ochs
So do your duty, boys, and join with pride Serve your country in her suicide Find the flags so you can wave goodbye But just before the end even treason might be worth a try This country is too young to die I declare the war is over It's over, it's over. View quote
Phil Ochs
A Stalin functionary admitted, "Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people, he said, were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason. View quote
Paul Johnson
The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut