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Quotes About Treason

To question me once is a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.
~ Terry Goodkind
Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.
~ Terry Pratchett
There were plots afoot—plans of deceit, treason, and betrayal—and the only hope the Americans had to survive them was to be prepared. Washington knew that New York City was of the utmost strategic importance from a military perspective, but even he could not anticipate how crucial the intelligence collected there would be in saving the cause for liberty. And neither side, American nor British, could yet imagine just how deep the treachery reached within its own ranks.
~ Brian Kilmeade
Despite the fact that a Supreme Court Justice can be impeached for treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors, apparently being delusional doesn't make the cut. Maybe the problem is that 58% of Americans also believe in the devil. I guess it's tough to recognize insanity when you're living in the asylum. But
~ Ian Gurvitz
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.
~ Ambrose Burnside
John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.
~ John Sergeant Wise
This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
~ Thomas Dekker
For Donald Trump, any opposition, either personal, ideological, or political is treason. Anyone who stands in his path betrays the Great Leader. Anyone who fails to take the knee is a traitor.
~ Rick Wilson
With every alleged ethics violation, with every brazen lie, with every deranged tweet, this administration leaves the public sphere more broken and degraded. Even if corruption (or treason) ultimately costs Trump the White House, what will be left behind will be wreckage—proof of the fundamental premise of Trump's political project: that government is not just a swamp, it's a burden. That there is nothing worth protecting. That private is better than public.
~ Naomi Klein
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
It was not an act of treason, nor possibly even of defiance. But it was a calculated withdrawal, from the life of the Republic, from its machinery. Whatever else was being denied them out of hate, indifference to the power of their vote, loopholes, simple ignorance, this withdrawal was their own, unpublicized, private. Since they could not have withdrawn into a vacuum (could they?), there had to exist the separate, silent, unsuspected world.
~ Thomas Pynchon
the apostasy laws in God's Law are not laws against mere unbelief or misguided worship. Those laws were designed to protect the legal integrity of the nation (criminalizing such actions as treason, conspiracy, seditious revolt, and espionage) and to bring judgment against wicked idolatry (criminalizing such actions as cultural subversion and public mayhem).
~ Kenneth L. Gentry Jr.
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
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one whou can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
~ Calvin Coolidge
It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know that he is not a great man. 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
They did attempt to leave the European Union last year, but apparently that was prompted by demonic interference. A lot of politicians were subsequently tried for treason and beheaded at the Tower of London.
~ Genevieve Cogman
Very strongly tied to Europe, which is why CENSOR has an English name and acronym. It did attempt to leave the European Union last year, but apparently that was prompted by demonic interference. A lot of politicians were subsequently tried for treason and beheaded at the Tower of London.
~ Genevieve Cogman
The United Kingdom?' 'Very strongly tied to Europe, which is why CENSOR has an English name and acronym. It did attempt to leave the European Union last year, but apparently that was prompted by demonic interference. A lot of politicians were subsequently tried for treason and beheaded at the Tower of London.
~ Genevieve Cogman
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
~ George Bernard Shaw
There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.
~ George Eliot
There's nae reasoning wi some cats. You say 'reason', they mew 'treason'. Ken?
~ Irvine Welsh
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
~ Edward Coke
There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.
~ I. F. Stone