Treason Quotes
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Harold Coffin -
If this be treason, make the most of it!
Patrick Henry
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The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
Fidel Castro -
Sin is cosmic treason
R. C. Sproul -
The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe
William Shakespeare -
Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
R. C. Sproul -
Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.
William Allen White
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Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind, goddamnit!
P. J. O'Rourke -
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 -
Hanging had been introduced by the Anglo-Saxons during the fifth century as a punishment for murder, theft and treason.
Catharine Arnold -
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 -
He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
Plutarch -
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 -
There's such divinity doth hedge a king That treason can but peep to what it would.
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 -
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 -
All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
Amelia Barr -
Sometimes duplicity and treason are markers of the enemy, and sometimes, the failed intention of a masterful ally. But, nevertheless, as they burden you with a vexing brand of love, they become nothing more than the kiss of Judas, pressing a crown of thorns into your flesh.
Addison Webster Moore
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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 -
All that harms labor is treason to America.
Abraham Lincoln -
The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
Thomas Carlyle -
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?
Antoine de Saint-Exupery