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Quotes about Treason


They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor
excommunicate, for they have no souls.

Sir Edward Coke

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

Sir John Harrington

Great Cæsar fell.
O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!
Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,
Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us.

William Shakespeare

Better be with the dead,
Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
Than on the torture of the mind to lie
In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave;
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.

William Shakespeare

There's such divinity doth hedge a king,
That treason can but peep to what it would.

William Shakespeare

The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.

William Shakespeare

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

Thomas Dekker

Cæsar had his Brutus; Charles the First, his Cromwell; and George the Third ["Treason!" cried the Speaker]--may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

Patrick Henry

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!

Thomas Moore

His eyes
All radiant with glad surprise,
Looked forward through the Centuries
And saw the seeds which sages cast
In the world's soil in cycles past
Spring up and blossom at the last;
Saw how the souls of men had grown,
And where the scythes of Truth had mown
Clear space for Liberty's white throne;
Saw how, by sorrow tried and proved,
The blackening stains had been removed
Forever from the land he loved;
Saw Treason crushed and Freedom crowned,
And clamorous Faction, gagged and bound,
Gasping its life out on the ground.

Richard Realf

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Theodore Roosevelt

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 at the end of a love or a season.

Robert Frost

They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Lord Edward Coke

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.

Charles Churchill

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

Norman Cousins

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

Sir Edward Coke

Pity is treason.

Maximilien Robespierre

The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

There's such divinity doth hedge a king That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will.

William Shakespeare

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

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

T S Eliot

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!

Thomas Moore

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

Thomas Dekker

Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified.

John Dryden

Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's person may be with one knife.

Thomas Fuller

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