If This Be Treason Quotes

#1. Caesar 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

#2. 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

Edward Abbey

#3. No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.

H.L. Mencken

#4. Disunion by force is treason.

Andrew Jackson

#5. In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.

Philip Sidney

#6. There's eternal opposition between yin and yang.
No third party at all, but treason occurs sometimes.

Toba Beta

#7. So while dueling may have begun as a response to high crimes - to treachery, treason, and adultery - by 1900 it had tiptoed down the stairs of reason, until they were being fought over the tilt of a hat, the duration of a glance, or the placement of a comma. In

Amor Towles

#8. 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.

Ayn Rand

#9. To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)

Dorothy L. Sayers

#10. I'm very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning's story, the army intelligence officer who's being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason.

Eion Bailey

#11. A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime; whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, or by millions calling themselves a government.

Lysander Spooner

#12. In other words, I'm against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration.

Viggo Mortensen

#13. Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

R.C. Sproul

#14. 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

#15. Treason is when legislators vote against homeland security measures because it goes against the wishes of their political or financial backers. Treason is the fact that, as a terrorist, you could still buy a gun in this country because the NRA lobby is so strong.

Bill Maher

#16. I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.

Stephen Fry