Traitor Quotes
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A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
Abraham Lincoln -
Jason Bourne was the name of someone in American military intelligence—a traitor who was shot dead for his crime. When the present Bourne was recruited into Treadstone he was given the name of the dead man.
Eric Van Lustbader
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I cannot be a traitor, since I never swore fealty to the English king.
William Wallace -
He was my mentor at UCLA, but he's a traitor now.
Brian Jones The Rolling Stones -
Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe
William Shakespeare -
Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
Vladimir Lenin -
...I feel like a traitor, a phony, a fake. But I am a hypocrite with the best intentions, and I need kissing desperately.
Coco J. Ginger -
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
William Shakespeare
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O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.
William Shakespeare -
I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!
Tom Stoppard -
An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.
William Shakespeare -
Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, That would reduce these bloody days again And make poor England weep in streams of blood! Let them not live to taste this land's increase That would with treason wound this fair land's peace! Now civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again: That she may long live here, God say amen!
William Shakespeare -
Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle; I am no traitor's uncle, and that word "grace" In an ungracious mouth is but profane.
William Shakespeare
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I was too young that time to value her, But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so am I. We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, Still we went coupled and inseparable.
William Shakespeare -
Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.
John Milton -
A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
Henry Ward Beecher -
He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.
William Gurnall -
Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.
William Blake
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There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth.
Lord Byron -
There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into five wars. What an aggressive foreign policy accomplishes by slow degrees, a state of war accomplishes in a trice. Overnight [war] kills reform, overnight it transforms insurgents into traitors and the Republic into an imperiled realm. Overnight it strangles free politics, distracts and overawes the citizenry. Overnight it blasts public hope.
Walter Karp -
Nothing would have been changed for the German people, but my name would have gone down in history as that of the greatest traitor.
Gerd von Rundstedt -
I'm a traitor, but I don't consider myself a traitor.
Aldrich Ames