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Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief. By Lord Byron Tyranny Treasons Worst Dost Subjects

Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name! By Madame Roland Liberty Crimes Committed

This last line was dangerously close to treason. By Hugh Howey Treason Line Dangerously Close

I'm wary of a certain human nature. More than anything, I fear treason. By Mylene Farmer Nature Wary Human Treason Fear

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren't loved wherever they go, whatever they do. By Kurt Vonnegut Americans Highest Form Treason Loved

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. By Addison Moore Enemy Ally Duplicity Treason Markers

Lord Heikan be careful what you say for treason is not far from your lips. By Joseph Henry Gaines Heikan Lord Lips Careful Treason

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty. By Henry Ward Beecher Liberty Traitor Good Fruit Hang

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture. By Ayn Rand Joy Existence Achieved Torture Goal

I am to die steeped in treasonous guilt, my name cursed, my memory unmourned and my service to The Kingdom blotted from history. By Paul W.s. Bowler Kingdom Guilt Cursed History Die

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. By Kurt Vonnegut Matter Usa Americans Loved Highest

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. By David Graham Phillips Resourceful Senate American Strong Treason

Pity is treason. By Maximilien Robespierre Pity Treason

Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason. By R.c. Sproul Treason Slightest Sin Act Cosmic

It is plain, therefore, that if, when the Constitution says treason, it means treason - treason in fact, and nothing else - there is no ground at all for pretending that the Southern people have committed that crime. But if, on the other hand, when the Constitution says treason, it means what the Czar and the Kaiser mean by treason, then our government is, in principle, no better than theirs; and has no claim whatever to be considered a free government. By Lysander Spooner Constitution Treason Southern Plain Fact

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

You must try to understand, my dearest one. It was not treason, was but a dream bred before its time, that the King should not be accountable only to God. No mortal man ought to be entrusted with power such as that, for any king's son may be born a fool. By Sharon Kay Penman Understand King Dearest God Treason

Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and acts against the oppressions of the government. The latter are virtues, yet have furnished more victims to the executioner than the former. Real treasons are rare; oppressions frequent. The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries. By Thomas Jefferson Acts Government Country Codes Extend

The people of our state will no longer tolerate advocates of treason. By George Smathers Treason People State Longer Tolerate

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. By William Shakespeare Working Treason Hath Murder Purpose

You know," he said, "you have a really weird relationship with treason. By James S.a. Corey Treason Weird Relationship

Do not betray the people. By Muqtada Al Sadr People Betray

The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger. By Henry Ward Beecher Danger Fear Grand Treason Times

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue. By Hannah More Virtue Good Disagreeable High Treason

[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. By Theodore Parker America Nation Rebellious Treason Born

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. By William Shakespeare Supposition Eyes Fox Neer Tame

I'm a traitor, but I don't consider myself a traitor. By Aldrich Ames Traitor

An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England. By William Shakespeare France England World Arrant Traitor

Some words are wind, ser. Some are treason. By George R R Martin Ser Wind Words Treason

I've freed you once tonight, and I would rather not do it again. I prefer to commit treason as few times as possible. By Gillian Bronte Adams Tonight Freed Prefer Commit Treason

In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, however, we are in big trouble. By Ron Paul Society Truth Free Supposed Treason

Implications of treason are fed like cubes of sugar to the twelve-headed animal which is justice. In ... opening remarks. In the way questions are asked. In support of lines of questioning where cases of treason are cited and the Judge endorses the relevance of the citation. By E.l. Doctorow Implications Justice Fed Cubes Sugar

Subversion can only be treason if government is legitimate. When a government has broken international law and its own internal laws it ceases to be legitimate. At that point a man of conscience and true patriotism is honor bound to take actions intended to restore legitimate government to his country. By G. Russell Overton Subversion Government Legitimate Treason Broken

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. South By Edward Abbey Treason Space Highest Meanest Deny

When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor. By Ursula K. Le Guin Fact Traitor Enemy Enthusiastically Embraces

Tortured for the Republic. By James A. Garfield Republic Tortured

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! By Andrew Johnson South North Fate Treason Care

Who amongst us has not committed treason to something or someone more important than a country? By Graham Greene Country Committed Treason Important

Beaten armies always shout, "TREASON! By John Taliaferro Treason Beaten Shout Armies

Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason. By Terry Pratchett Raising Suspicious Treason Flag Singing

There's such divinity doth hedge a king. That treason doth but peep to what it would. By William Shakespeare King Doth Divinity Hedge Treason

One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery. By Grant Morrison Finery Commit Acts Highest Treason

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. By William Shakespeare Life Fitful Fever Sleeps Treason

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. By John Knox God Assured Laws Treason Hereof

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates. By Alexandre Dumas Dates Difference Treason Patriotism Matter

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. By Edmund Burke Relents Vigour Liberty Pardon Spirit

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. By Barbara Jordan Today Inquisitor Constitution Diminution Subversion

treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! By William Shakespeare Fly Treachery Fleance Good

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. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. By Marcus Tullius Cicero Survive Traitor Fools Ambitious Nation

The commanding general publishes, for the information of all concerned, that hereafter all persons found within our lines who commit acts for the benefit of the enemies of our country will be tried as spies or traitors, and, if convicted, will suffer death. By Ambrose Burnside Publishes Concerned Traitors Convicted Death

I wish you'd get one thing straight - I'm not a traitor. I was never on your side. I'm called the enemy. By Karen Traviss Straight Traitor Thing Side Enemy

Haste to disgrace the traitor. Do not wait 'til later. By Jesse Lacey Haste Traitor Disgrace Wait Til

A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution. By Marie Howe Traitor Commits Crime Rest Retribution

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason. By Daryl Gates War People Treason Blast Pot

Have you ever heard a five-year-old recite the Pledge of Allegiance, Arthur? It's creepy as hell. Their enunciation is perfect, but they have no idea what kind of promise they're making, of what's being called for. No one tells you until later that breaking your words amounts to treason. No one tells you until later that you can't take it back. I was having my own treasonous thoughts as I drove. They were half formed, but went a little like this: asking something like that from a person ought not to be allowed. By Alyson Foster Arthur Allegiance Pledge Recite Heard

Millions of Americans cannot tell you who lived at Mount Vernon or who wrote the Declaration of Independence - let alone the Emancipation Proclamation. But they know that to be 'a Benedict Arnold' is to be a traitor of the deepest dye - someone who coldly betrays not only a sacred cause but every moral scruple along the way. By Arthur L. Herman Independence Proclamation Americans Mount Vernon

He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor. By Plutarch Caesar Loved Treason Traitor Hated

Secrets and Malice By Ken Langwell Malice Secrets

Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These autocrats, these tyrants, these red-handed robbers and murderers, the "patriots," while the men who have the courage to stand face to face with them, speak the truth, and fight for their exploited victims-they are the disloyalists and traitors. If this be true, I want to take my place side by side with the traitors in this fight. By Eugene V. Debs Archpatriot Democracy Solitary Aristocratic Conspirators

I say, traitors; as some men live upon the reward of treachery, for their quiet and liberty; if it may be called a liberty, as it is redeemed with the betraying of the interest of Christ, and the blood of His people. By Donald Cargill Liberty Christ Traitors Treachery People

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. By Richard Hofstadter Act Treason Imagination Error Incompetence

Traitors! I shall oppose you in the name of the Han! By Liu Bei Traitors Han Oppose

But you're not a traitor, you've merely been the tool of one. I don't punish tools. They do harm only in the hands of a bad workman. By Ursula K. Le Guin Traitor Tool Tools Workman Punish

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good. By George Eliot Weakness Good Mercy Treason Common

There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth By Lord Byron Truth Traitor Domestic Treason Plants

The cry of "Traitor!" was not a local voice only, but a bewildered people's explanation of the inexplicable. It was the eternal cry of conspiracy, of stab in the back. By Barbara W. Tuchman Traitor Inexplicable Cry Local Voice

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. By Samuel Johnson Nature Considered Treason Great Republic

What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it? By Laini Taylor Treason Soldier Mercy

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile. By Pope Gregory Vii Iniquity Exile Loved Justice Hated

Cin. Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead! Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets. By William Shakespeare Cin Liberty Freedom Proclaim Tyranny

The love of freedom, so often invigorated and disgraced by private ambition, was reduced, among the licentious Franks, to the contempt of order, and the desire of impunity. By Edward Gibbon Franks Freedom Ambition Reduced Order

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. By C.p. Snow Committed Man Rebellion Long Gloomy

Voila! In view humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the "vox populi" now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, van guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V. By Alan Moore Voila Veteran Cast Fate Vanished

Cynicism is intellectual treason. By Norman Cousins Cynicism Treason Intellectual

Adultery is in most cases a theft in the dark. At such moments almost every woman betrays her husband's innermost secrets; becomes a Delilah who discloses to a stranger, discloses to her lover, the mysteries of her husband's strength or weakness. What seems to me treason is, not that women give themselves, but that a woman is prone, when she does so, to justify herself to herself by uncovering her husband's nakedness, exposing it to the inquisitive and scornful gaze of a stranger. By Stefan Zweig Husband Stranger Adultery Dark Cases

The Constitution certainly supposes that the crime of treason can be committed only by man, as an individual. It would be very curious to see a man indicted, convicted, or hanged, otherwise than as an individual; or accused of having committed his treason otherwise than as an individual. And yet it is clearly impossible that any one can be personally guilty of treason, can be a traitor in fact, unless he, as an individual, has in some way voluntarily pledged his faith and fidelity to the government. Certainly no man, or body of men, could pledge it for him, without his consent; and no man, or body of men, have any right to presume it against him, when he has not pledged it, himself. By Lysander Spooner Individual Constitution Man Treason Committed

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. By Jonathan Mayhew Judges Law Tyrant Uttered Subjects

Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors. By Gore Vidal Traitors Patriots Usurpers Emperors Prevail

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. By James Russell Lowell Man Constitutions God Traitor Humanity

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! By Charles Lamb Treason Blight Brave Tongue Curse

Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty. By Richard Cushing America Treason Realize Selfscrutiny Selfexamination

Wizard's Tenth RuleWillfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self. By Terry Goodkind Tenth Wizard Rulewillfully Turning Truth

On thee, the troubler of the poor world's peace! The worm of conscience still be-gnaw thy soul! Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou liv'st, And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends! By William Shakespeare Thee Peace Thy Troubler Poor

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence. By Edmund Burke Fellowship Confidence Treason Bad Ground

Surely no rebel can expect the King to pardon his treason while he remains in open revolt. No one can be so foolish as to imagine that the Judge of all the earth will put away our sins if we refuse to put them away ourselves. By Charles Haddon Spurgeon King Surely Revolt Rebel Expect

She was trying to find the section that described the penalties for treason. She'd browsed through the section at one point and vaguely recalled a long list of punishments culminating with the guilty party being ritually trampled to death by the population of the village of Avebury, which seemed unlikely, or at least somewhat difficult to arrange. By Daniel O'malley Section Treason Find Penalties Avebury

See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort. By Dorothy L. Sayers Mind God Honest Rest Follow

A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me. By George Iii Traitor Agree

Guilty to an indictment denouncing him (with infinite jingle and jangle) for that he was a false traitor to our serene, illustrious, excellent, and so forth, prince, our Lord the King, by reason of his having, on divers occasions, and by divers means and ways, assisted By Charles Dickens King Illustrious Excellent Prince Assisted

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery. By Aeschylus Traitors Treachery Learned Hate Disease

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny. By Pierre Corneille Treachery Tyranny Noble Aimed

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty. By Henry Knox Length Ripe Reason Government Liberty

When evil come on those we dearly love, never shall we betray them. By Aeschylus Love Evil Dearly Betray

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. By Calvin Coolidge Republic Institutions Man Begins Feel

To speak of atrocious crimes in mild language is treason to virtue. By Edmund Burke Virtue Speak Atrocious Crimes Mild

Any historian of warfare knows that it is in good part a comedy of errors and a museum of incompetence; but if for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, we can see how many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination: treason in high places can be found at almost every turning and in the end the real mystery, for one who reads the primary works of paranoid scholarship, is not how the United States has been brought to its present dangerous position, but how it has managed to survive at all. By Richard Hofstadter Incompetence Act Treason Paranoid United

Governments change, files remain. The paradox remained: in the dossiers of the State the fact that I had risked my neck for it was simultaneously listed forever as treason. When my name was mentioned, the exalted file clerks in the government offices, who sat on their chairs only because I and people like me allowed them to, made a wry face. By Ernst Junger Change Remain State Remained Treason

It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger till his ruin is at hand. By Pietro Metastasio Heaven Hand Decree Traitor Danger

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels. By Lillian Hellman Truth Scoundrels Made Traitor Time

Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity? By Noel Ignatiev Treason Humanity Whiteness Loyalty