Top 100 Quotes About Treason
#1. There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth
Lord Byron
#2. Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
R.C. Sproul
#3. The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
Jonathan Edwards
#4. You know," he said, "you have a really weird relationship with treason.
James S.A. Corey
#5. Liberals have a preternatural gift for striking a position on the side of treason ... Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy.
Ann Coulter
#6. There's a huge cost to freedom in letting people talk about how you print these plastic guns or letting them say these things about arming for tyranny. There's also a cost to letting the government say these ideas can't be expressed, this is treason. It's difficult.
Glenn Greenwald
#7. A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.
Kurt Huber
#8. Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.
Terry Pratchett
#9. The empire took Rhenydd through deceit, murder, and trickery. I don't speak treason. I speak loyalty- loyalty to the monarchy. To sit by and let the empire rape this kingdom and burn this city is treason and, what's more, it's foolhardy cowardice!
Michael J. Sullivan
#11. 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
#12. If a Muslim becomes a non-Muslim and propagates his/her new religion, then it is as good as treason. There is a Death Penalty in Islam for such a person.
Zakir Naik
#13. if you thought like Sherman and there was a nest of treason to be found, Columbia was in your crosshairs.
Robert L. O'Connell
#14. This new approach, it seemed, was not to be made so publicly, not to be exposed to the expedient treason of little devious minds far removed from the battlefields on which honest men met, and contended, and killed one another without malice.
Edith Pargeter
#16. I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.
Cornel West
#17. The first ape who became a man thus committed treason against his own kind.
Mikhail Turovsky
#18. This last line was dangerously close to treason.
Hugh Howey
#19. 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. 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
#24. In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
Edmund Spenser
#25. There's such divinity doth hedge a king. That treason doth but peep to what it would.
William Shakespeare
#26. The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.
Steven Pressfield
#27. 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
#28. To speak of atrocious crimes in mild language is treason to virtue.
Edmund Burke
#30. To question me onceis a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.-Kahlan
Terry Goodkind
#31. Only In America can a renowned and devoted terrorism supporter like Peter King be the arbiter of national security and treason.
Glenn Greenwald
#32. I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason ...
Cato The Younger
#33. After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.
Adam Michnik
#34. The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
Aaron Hill
#35. Truth is treason in the empire of lies.
Ron Paul
#36. 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.
Samuel Johnson
#37. There is a sort of mental treason
That smothers dreams outside of reason
Mike Corbett
#38. We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.
Benjamin Disraeli
#39. He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
Plutarch
#40. America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.
William Blum
#41. They tell me that you have been crying in your sleep. Do not grieve our separation, my love, for our reunion will come just as swiftly.
-Letter from unknown prisoner, convicted of treason, to fiancee
Marie Lu
#42. Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason.
R.C. Sproul
#43. 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.
Calvin Coolidge
#44. If God needs to condemn anything to hell, it ought to be the idea of social death. Every day we commit an act of revolution, an act of treason, against a system that was never meant to guarantee our survival.
Kiese Laymon
#45. Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.
John Le Carre
#46. 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.
David Graham Phillips
#47. 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!
Charles Lamb
#48. 'Cue for Treason,' by Geoffrey Trease, radicalized my young girl brain and made me want to be a gender-bending, sonnet-writing anarchist. It really made something roar to life inside of me.
Miriam Toews
#49. 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
#51. It is treason to sacrifice love of truth, intellectual honesty, loyalty to the laws and methods of the mind, to any other interests, including those of one's country.
Hermann Hesse
#52. Outside of a few national security issues like treason that the Constitution lays out, we don't need federal crimes, and we don't need federal prisons. We need state crimes and state prisons.
Rob Woodall
#53. Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.
Robert Greene
#54. Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.
Richard Cushing
#55. I have spent a great deal of my life being part of minorities. Some of the people I admire the most in the world have had the courage to defend, against wind and tide, minority viewpoints in those frightening times when any disagreement with universal conformity is identified as treason.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#56. There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.
George Eliot
#57. We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
Daryl Gates
#58. Treason is a charge invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers.
Sherman Edwards
#59. Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
John Dryden
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.
Noah Webster
#63. 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
#64. A mother's love never wavers in its strength, never falters in its fierce determination, never dilutes despite time or treason.
Richard Capwell
#65. The subject of Citizenfour, Edward Snowden, could not be here for some treason.
Neil Patrick Harris
#66. As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and nothing is but what is not.
Samuel Laman Blanchard
#67. I will never let Berkley commit treason, ever," Maximus said, "but if he did, I would step on anyone who tried to hang him.
Naomi Novik
#68. All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
Rebecca West
#69. If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you'll eventually be accused of treason.
Mort Sahl
#70. Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
Edward Coke
#71. I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason
Naguib Mahfouz
#72. 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 Moore
#75. A judge judges only matters of fact, but God judges the heart. He not only judges wicked actions, but wicked designs. He sees the treason of the heart and punishes it.
Thomas Watson
#76. I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals. If they were influenced by Macbeth, they were also influenced by Nigerian plays I had seen and Village Headmaster, a television drama series I had watched as a child.
Sefi Atta
#77. Lord Heikan be careful what you say for treason is not far from your lips.
Joseph Henry Gaines
#78. All things in common nature should produce
Without sweat or endeavour. Treason, felony,
Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine,
Would I not have; but nature should bring forth,
Of it own kind, all foison, all abundance,
To feed my innocent people.
William Shakespeare
#79. Dear Mom,
I won't be home this weekend because I'm wanted for treason and I have to clear my name. Also, I took the last Sprite from the fridge.
Love, Steve
Mac Barnett
#80. So I said good-bye to government, And I gave my reason: That a really good religion Is a form of treason.
Kurt Vonnegut
#81. The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
Thomas Carlyle
#82. The real problem with big issues like Medicare is that both parties have to be brave at the same time. Every pollster will tell you not to do that to get partisan advantage. Too many people here are willing to deliberately harm the country for partisan gain. That is borderline treason.
Jim Cooper
#83. The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren't loved wherever they go, whatever they do.
Kurt Vonnegut
#84. In these meetings of all sorts, every counsel, in proportion as it is daring and violent and perfidious, is taken for the mark of superior genius. Humanity and compassion are ridiculed as the fruits of superstition and ignorance. Tenderness to individuals is considered as treason to the public.
Edmund Burke
#85. 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
#86. In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, however, we are in big trouble.
Ron Paul
#87. A successful coup ain't a treason.
Toba Beta
#88. [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.
Theodore Parker
#90. 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.
John Knox
#91. One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.
Grant Morrison
#92. During President George W. Bush's two terms, you couldn't drive far without seeing a particular bumper sticker: Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. Now that Democrats control the White House and Congress, the left treats dissent as the lowest form of treason.
Monica Crowley
#94. I had just lot my best friend, barely escaped having my life sucked out by a psychotic burning girl, committed treason and nearly gotten the guy I liked killed by a crazy faerie. What were hairy legs compared to that?
Kiersten White
#95. She never went out herself, and like a great many other old ladies of the same stamp, she was apt to consider it an act of domestic treason, if anybody else took the liberty of doing what she couldn't.
Charles Dickens
#96. If you want to traumatize people, treason trials are an extreme way - if there are spies running around in our midst, then we're really in trouble, we'd better just listen to the government and stop thinking.
Noam Chomsky
#98. To break training without permission is an act of treason.
John Heisman
#100. Sir Lancelot increased in fame and worship above all men, for he overthrew all comers, and never was unhorsed or worsted, save by treason and enchantment.
James Knowles
