Top 80 No Treason Quotes
#1. The soul unto itself
Is an imperial friend,
Or the most agonizing spy
An enemy could send.
Secure against its own,
No treason it can fear;
Itself its sovereign, of itself
The soul should stand in awe.
Emily Dickinson
#2. She who resists as though she would not win,
By her own treason falls an easy prey.
Ovid
#3. 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.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#4. 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
#5. A crazy country, choking air, polluted hearts, treachery. Treachery and treason.
Naguib Mahfouz
#6. Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.
Edmund Burke
#8. Race mixing becomes a crime worse than treason. Humans being humans, and sex being sex, that prohibition never stopped anyone. There were mixed kids in south Africa 9 months after the first Dutch boats hit the beach at Table Bay.
Trevor Noah
#9. 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.
E.L. Doctorow
#10. The people of our state will no longer tolerate advocates of treason.
George Smathers
#11. There's eternal opposition between yin and yang.
No third party at all, but treason occurs sometimes.
Toba Beta
#12. But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.
Charles Bass
#13. Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe
William Shakespeare
#14. In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.
Philip Sidney
#15. All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
Amelia Barr
#16. The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#18. No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.
H.L. Mencken
#19. To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.
Brandon Sanderson
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Blood transmits a propensity for heart diseases; if it also transmits a propensity for treason, no one has ever been able to prove it.
Jonathan Littell
#24. Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.
Noah Webster
#25. Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Edward Coke
#26. Why would you risk treason for a mud fight?"
"You have no idea how much I'd risk for an honest-to-God mud fight between two hot women," says Dee.
Susan Ee
#27. I have orders to bring Reyna in alive to stand trial for treason. I have no orders to bring you in alive, or the faun." "Satyr!" the coach yelled. He kicked a skeleton in its bony crotch, which seemed to hurt Hedge more than the redcoat. "Ow! Stupid British dead guys!
Rick Riordan
#28. A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within ... for the traitor appears not to be a traitor ... he rots the soul of a nation ... he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#29. There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth
Lord Byron
#30. As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world, and I know what it is to be a subject and what to be a sovereign. Good neighbours I have had, and I have met with bad: and in trust I have found treason.
Elizabeth I
#31. Harder to know that her father had sent her here. Hard, horrible, the the way he had looked at her, disowned her, accused her of treason. She'd been guilty. She had done every thing that he believed of her, and now she had no father.
Marie Rutkoski
#32. As for myself, my course is clear. A British subject I was born - a British subject I will die. With my utmost effort, with my latest breath, will I oppose the 'veiled treason' which attempts by sordid means and mercenary proffers to lure our people from their allegiance.
John A. Macdonald
#33. 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.
Sharon Kay Penman
#34. No owl is afraid of the night, no snake of the swamp and no traitor of the treason!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#35. 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.
Kurt Vonnegut
#36. 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.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#37. 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
#38. A Stalin functionary admitted, Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people, he said, were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason.
Paul Johnson
#39. When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.
I. F. Stone
#40. A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly ... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.
Edmund Burke
#41. 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
#42. Let misery hide itself in silence, otherwise it becomes treason.
Victor Hugo
#43. 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
#44. Call it peace or call it treason / call it love or call it reason / but I ain't marching anymore
Phil Ochs
#45. 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
#46. Suppose, for instance, that the President of the United States has committed the crime of high treason; the House of Representatives impeaches him, and the Senate degrades him; he must then be tried by a jury, which alone can deprive him of his liberty or his life.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#47. Three treasons you will know;. One for blood, one for gold, and one for love.
George R R Martin
#48. So do your duty, boys, and join with prideServe your country in her suicideFind the flags so you can wave goodbyeBut just before the end even treason might be worth a tryThis country is too young to dieI declare the war is overIt's over, it's over.
Phil Ochs
#50. Sometimes, impossible just means you have to try harder. -Kara
S.M. Boyce
#51. I wil not heat treason from my own daughter
What will you do behead me for treason? We are not an amry at war
We are an army at war! This is your brother's rightful throne that we are talking about
Philippa Gregory
#53. The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.
Josiah Royce
#54. Miss Treason! Remember you have an appointment!"
It wasn't the best thing to say, but a lot better than: "You said you were going to die in about five minutes' time!
Terry Pratchett
#55. Wizard's Tenth Rule
Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.
Terry Goodkind
#56. To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.
Hannah More
#57. Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.
George R R Martin
#58. Love is a spy who is plotting treason, In league with that warm, red rebel, the Heart.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#59. The surface causes of Adams's anxieties are not difficult to discern. Every activist knew the penalty for treason. Every congressman knew that prison, perhaps death, would be his reward if the American rebellion failed.
John Ferling
#60. No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.
Josiah Royce
#62. The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T. S. Eliot
#63. I just wish I could have all this and stand up to her a little. Rose would."
"Rose would have gotten herself arrested for treason the first time Tatiana asked her to do something.
Richelle Mead
#64. The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
Thomas Francis Meagher
#65. Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.
William Shakespeare
#66. Let a thing here be noted, that the prophet of God sometimes may teach treason against kings, and yet neither he nor such as obey the word, spoken in the Lord's name by him, offend God.
John Knox
#67. I am not yet born; Forgive me For the sins that in me the world shall commit, my words When they speak me, my thoughts when they think me, My treason engendered by traitors beyound me, My life when they murder by means of my hands, my death when they live me.
Louis MacNeice
#68. You will find it a stronghold in the day of trial to plead your adoption. You have no rights as a subject, you have forfeited them by your treason; but nothing can forfeit a child's right to a father's protection.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#69. Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.
Cullen Hightower
#70. This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
Thomas Dekker
#71. The first sin was rebellion, idolatry, treason, and pride, all rolled into a single bite. Both Adam and Eve made a conscious choice to rebel against their Creator and live on their own terms. And we imitate their decision every time we choose our desires over God's.
Francis Chan
#72. A sin is treason against a Holy God. A mistake is a logical misstep. Sin lurks in our heart and grabs us by the throat to do its bidding.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#73. 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.
William Shakespeare
#74. Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.
Alan Moore
#75. Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going - the Austrians, the Spaniards, the Russians. Pray, are the Russians good now? It would be very shocking - treason no doubt - to put the wrong people in my prayers.
Patrick O'Brian
#76. I was confided to your loyalty and accepted by your treason; you offer my death to those to whom you had promised my life. Do you know who it is you are destroying here? It is yourself.
Victor Hugo
#77. They say you better listen to the voice of reason But they don't give you any choice 'cause they think that it's treason. So you had better do as you are told. You better listen to the radio.
Elvis Costello
#78. Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked between son and father. This
William Shakespeare
#79. You will answer this day for your treason." Then he added solemnly, "You break my heart, brother." Before Eyramus could blink Thristan was gone.
Madison Thorne Grey
#80. There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified.
Reza Aslan
