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I have always considered it
as treason against the great
republic of human nature, to
make any man's virtues the
means of deceiving him
Samuel Johnson
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If this be treason, make the most of it! Votes: 6

Patrick Henry

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Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. Votes: 6

Edward Coke

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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. Votes: 6

T. S. Eliot

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Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason. Votes: 6

John Harington

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All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears. Votes: 6

Rebecca West

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Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor? Votes: 6

Frank Moore Colby

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Cynicism is intellectual treason. Votes: 4

Norman Cousins

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Bad literature is a form of treason. Votes: 4

Joseph Brodsky

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Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason. Votes: 4

Kenneth Patchen

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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious. Votes: 4

Miguel de Cervantes

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He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor. Votes: 4

Plutarch

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No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted. Votes: 4

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason. Votes: 4

John Harington

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. Votes: 4

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him. Votes: 4

Aaron Hill

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Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe Votes: 4

William Shakespeare

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Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope. Votes: 4

William Shakespeare

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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. Votes: 4

George Bernard Shaw

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Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might! Votes: 4

Charles Lamb

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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. Votes: 4

James Russell Lowell

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Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors. Votes: 4

William Shakespeare

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. Votes: 4

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence. Votes: 4

William Shakespeare

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Treason seldom dwells with courage. Votes: 3

Walter Scott

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Treason is a matter of dates. Votes: 3

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Treason pleases, but not the traitor. Votes: 3

Miguel de Cervantes

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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest. Votes: 3

John Dryden

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Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity? Votes: 3

Noel Ignatiev

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Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself. Votes: 3

Alphonse de Lamartine

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Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided. Votes: 3

John le Carre

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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God. Votes: 3

Jonathan Edwards

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Treason is like diamonds there is nothing to be made by the small trader Votes: 3

Douglas Jerrold

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Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty. Votes: 3

Noah Webster

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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. Votes: 3

Samuel Johnson

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After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further. Votes: 3

William Shakespeare

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Cue for Treason,' by Geoffrey Trease, radicalized my young girl brain and made me want to be a gender-bending, sonnet-writing anarchist. It really made something roar to life inside of me. Votes: 3

Miriam Toews

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Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated? Votes: 3

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third â ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] â may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it. Votes: 3

Patrick Henry

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Treason is a strong word, but not too strong to characterize the situation in which the Senate is the eager, resourceful, and indefatigable agent of interests as hostile to the American people as any invading army could be. Votes: 3

David Graham Phillips

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I love discourse. I'm dying to have my mind changed. I'm probably the only liberal who read Treason, by Ann Coulter. I want to know, you understand? I like listening to everybody. This to me is the elixir of life. Votes: 3

Jack Nicholson

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Treason is when legislators vote against homeland security measures because it goes against the wishes of their political or financial backers. Treason is the fact that, as a terrorist, you could still buy a gun in this country because the NRA lobby is so strong. Votes: 3

Bill Maher

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Pity is treason. Votes: 2

Maximilien Robespierre

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Disunion by force is treason. Votes: 2

Andrew Jackson

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Ingratitude is treason to mankind. Votes: 2

James Thomson

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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls. Votes: 2

Harold Coffin

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This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate. Votes: 2

Thomas Dekker

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America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape. Votes: 2

William Blum

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The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice. Votes: 2

Thomas Francis Meagher

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I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there. Votes: 2

Stephen Fry

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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 and is going to trial for crimes of treason. Votes: 2

Eion Bailey

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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. Votes: 2

Josiah Royce

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I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions. Votes: 2

Cornel West

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There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000. Votes: 2

Emile Lahoud

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After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol. Votes: 2

Adam Michnik

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We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason. Votes: 2

Philip Kearny

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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 than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason. Votes: 2

Barry Hannah

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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. Votes: 2

Kurt Huber

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There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified. Votes: 2

Reza Aslan

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I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason. Votes: 2

Antonio Munoz Molina

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There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon them on account of their birth in the country, or that they will be judged by any different rule, on the subject of treason, than persons of foreign birth. Votes: 2

Lysander Spooner

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To break training without permission is an act of treason. Votes: 1

John Heisman

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Sin is cosmic treason Votes: 0

R. C. Sproul

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Reason is 6/7 of treason. Votes: 0

James Thurber

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Any appeasement of tyranny is treason. Votes: 0

William Allen White

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I love treason but hate a traitor. Votes: 0

Julius Caesar

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Writing anything is a treason of sorts. Votes: 0

Anthony Bourdain

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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished. Votes: 0

Amelia Barr

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All that harms labor is treason to America. Votes: 0

Abraham Lincoln

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When war comes, reason is regarded as treason. Votes: 0

I. F. Stone

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Truth is treason in the empire of lies. Votes: 0

Ron Paul

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Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent. Votes: 0

Ayn Rand

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Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence. Votes: 0

Edmund Burke

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In a democratic society, the only treason is silence. Votes: 0

Anna Quindlen

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Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason. Votes: 0

R. C. Sproul

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Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent." -Kahlan Votes: 0

Terry Goodkind

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We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason. Votes: 0

Benjamin Disraeli

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In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place. Votes: 0

Philip Sidney

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Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty. Votes: 0

Richard Cushing

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John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection. Votes: 0

John Sergeant Wise

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To speak of atrocious crimes in mild language is treason to virtue. Votes: 0

Edmund Burke

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The people of our state will no longer tolerate advocates of treason. Votes: 0

George Smathers

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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates. Votes: 0

Alexandre Dumas

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I think Bush's immigration proposal is treason and he should be impeached. Votes: 0

Peter Brimelow

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The subject of Citizenfour, Edward Snowden, could not be here for some treason. Votes: 0

Neil Patrick Harris

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The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher

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I'm wary of a certain human nature. More than anything, I fear treason. Votes: 0

Mylene Farmer

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The first ape who became a man thus committed treason against his own kind. Votes: 0

Mikhail Turovsky

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Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self. Votes: 0

Terry Goodkind

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There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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The rise of Trump is a repudiation of 30 years of bipartisan treason and failure. Votes: 0

Roger Stone

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To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus. Votes: 0

Charles Spurgeon

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More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation. Votes: 0

H. L. Mencken

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If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you'll eventually be accused of treason. Votes: 0

Mort Sahl

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To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself. Votes: 0

Brandon Sanderson

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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate. Votes: 0

Edmund Spenser

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What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it? Votes: 0

Laini Taylor

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To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan" Votes: 0

Terry Goodkind

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To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan Votes: 0

Terry Goodkind

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The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit. Votes: 0

Carl Schurz

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One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery. Votes: 0

Grant Morrison

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Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that. Votes: 0

George R. R. Martin

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Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade. Votes: 0

Aaron Hill

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We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason. Votes: 0

Daryl Gates

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Love is a spy who is plotting treason, In league with that warm, red rebel, the Heart. Votes: 0

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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She who resists as though she would not win, By her own treason falls an easy prey. Votes: 0

Ovid

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Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority. Votes: 0

R. C. Sproul

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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason. Votes: 0

Lord Acton

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No owl is afraid of the night, no snake of the swamp and no traitor of the treason! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket. Votes: 0

Steven Pressfield

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I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason... Votes: 0

Cato the Younger

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As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not. Votes: 0

Samuel Laman Blanchard

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Call it peace or call it treason / call it love or call it reason / but I ain't marching anymore Votes: 0

Phil Ochs

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There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans arenât loved wherever they go, whatever they do. Votes: 0

Kurt Vonnegut

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Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance. Votes: 0

Cullen Hightower

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This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. Votes: 0

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Only In America can a renowned and devoted terrorism supporter like Peter King be the arbiter of national security and treason. Votes: 0

Glenn Greenwald

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The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason. Votes: 0

Richard M. Weaver

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The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against one's soul. Votes: 0

Terry Tempest Williams

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Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason. Votes: 0

Charles Churchill

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I nodded. "Yup. What I did was tantamount to treason in their eyes." "I don't know what 'tantamount' means, but it sounds pretty serious. Votes: 0

Richelle Mead

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For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled to a traitor's fate! Votes: 0

Andrew Johnson

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In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, however, we are in big trouble. Votes: 0

Ron Paul

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I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason. Votes: 0

Jane Fonda

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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. Votes: 0

Kurt Vonnegut

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Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot. Votes: 0

Alan Moore

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Treacherous people do not last only memories of their treason last.So will it last with emotions mixed, of love and hate for treacherous ones. Votes: 0

Amit Abraham

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God has appointed us captains of this our bodily fort, which, without treason to that majesty, are never to be delivered over till they are demanded. Votes: 0

Philip Sidney

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Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge. Votes: 0

Robert Greene

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In other words, I'm against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration. Votes: 0

Viggo Mortensen

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The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space. Votes: 0

Edward Abbey

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If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination. Votes: 0

Richard Hofstadter

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Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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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. Votes: 0

Charles Bass

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When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions. Votes: 0

Calvin Coolidge

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Liberals have a preternatural gift for striking a position on the side of treason...Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy. Votes: 0

Ann Coulter

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If a Muslim becomes a non-Muslim and propagates his/her new religion, then it is as good as treason. There is a Death Penalty in Islam for such a person. Votes: 0

Zakir Naik

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The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language. Votes: 0

Juan Goytisolo

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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. Votes: 0

John Knox

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When you're in the middle of a storm, leaving your country just because you have to leave without any reasonable reason, it means you're quitting your country and this is treason. Votes: 0

Bashar al-Assad

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Outside of a few national security issues like treason that the Constitution lays out, we don't need federal crimes, and we don't need federal prisons. We need state crimes and state prisons. Votes: 0

Rob Woodall

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[America is] 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. Votes: 0

Theodore Parker

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[America is] 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. Votes: 0

Theodore Parker

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Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that's what global warming is- in order to protect oil company profits, well, that fits for me the definition of treason. Votes: 0

Bill Maher

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I just wish I could have all this and stand up to her a little. Rose would." "Rose would have gotten herself arrested for treason the first time Tatiana asked her to do something. Votes: 0

Richelle Mead

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This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as non-traditional gramar, split infinitives, and the odd wank. Votes: 0

Christopher Moore

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If someone dares question the Administration's leadership or integrity, they drape a flag over the latest mess and cry treason!. Ironically and unfortunately, this bears a striking resemblance to the way I clean my house. Votes: 0

Jules Carlysle

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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?

Robert Frost

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Let a thing here be noted, that the prophet of God sometimes may teach treason against kings, and yet neither he nor such as obey the word, spoken in the Lord's name by him, offend God.

John Knox

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Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on Earth.

Eugene V. Debs

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To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they defend their rights ...is as great a treason as ever a man uttered.

Jonathan Mayhew

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A Stalin functionary admitted, Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason.

Paul Johnson

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The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects to read the Daily Times, government will go down on its knees to him, for this is the only treason these days.

Henry David Thoreau

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Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

Patrick Henry

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So do your duty, boys, and join with prideServe your country in her suicideFind the flags so you can wave goodbyeBut just before the end even treason might be worth a tryThis country is too young to dieI declare the war is overIt's over, it's over.

Phil Ochs

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I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason

Naguib Mahfouz

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If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.

Abraham Lincoln

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A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.

Edmund Burke

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There's a huge cost to freedom in letting people talk about how you print these plastic guns or letting them say these things about arming for tyranny. There's also a cost to letting the government say these ideas can't be expressed, this is treason. It's difficult.

Glenn Greenwald

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During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. Now that Democrats control the White House and Congress, the left treats dissent as the lowest form of treason.

Monica Crowley

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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.

John A. Macdonald

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The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. ABORTION is treason against the family and deserves the DEATH PENALTY. ADULTERY is treason to the family; adulterers should be put to DEATH. HOMOSEXUALITY is treason to the family, and it too, is worthy of DEATH.

R.J. Rushdoony

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Decreasing the budget on the space exploration is nothing but a great treason to humanity! Space exploration is closely related to our very existence! Cut the budget on other things and increase the budget on the space exploration! Think great; if you do not think great, universe annihilates you!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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