Treason Quotes
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If this be treason, make the most of it!
Patrick Henry
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Harold Coffin
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The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
Fidel Castro
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Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
R. C. Sproul
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Sin is cosmic treason
R. C. Sproul
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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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Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe
William Shakespeare
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The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
Miguel de Cervantes
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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
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The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare
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Treason is a matter of dates.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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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Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind, goddamnit!
P. J. O'Rourke
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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.
David Graham Phillips
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Hanging had been introduced by the Anglo-Saxons during the fifth century as a punishment for murder, theft and treason.
Catharine Arnold
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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.
Thomas Carlyle
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There's such divinity doth hedge a king That treason can but peep to what it would.
William Shakespeare
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Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.
William Allen White
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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.
Juan Goytisolo
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All that harms labor is treason to America.
Abraham Lincoln
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He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
Plutarch
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My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew up in a family that was very involved with the legal battles against apartheid—the great treason trials in the 1950s and early '60s, and later with the legal resources center that my mother founded. My father was involved with a number of very prominent cases that had political aspects to them, whether it was the inquest into the Sharpeville Massacre, the death of Steve Biko, or one of the trials of Nelson Mandela.
William Kentridge
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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
Amelia Barr
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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