Quotes About Treason

Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

She wondered when she had moved from mere conspiracy to treason.

You dirty, double-crossing rat.

In our commercial society, one may set one's price as high as one wishes, but to refuse to sell at any price is treason.

When I served in the Army, along the Iron Curtain we had a word for a person who absconds with information and provides it to another nation: traitor. We also had a name for a person who chooses to reveal secrets he had personally promised to protect: common criminal.

America once used the words 'treason' and 'traitors' only in cases of actual betrayal of our nation's most vital secrets or interests.

Workers of my country, I have faith in Chile and its destiny. Other men will overcome this dark and bitter moment when treason seeks to prevail. Keep in mind that, much sooner than later, the great avenues will again be opened through which will pass free men to construct a better society. Long live Chile! Long live the people! Long live the workers!

George Vines felvitt a tornya tetejébe, ahol az áruló Cooke feje van kit?zve, meg Harrisoné a Westminster Hall másik oldalán. Innen jól láttam ?ket, és a szép londoni panorámát is.

Any man can turn traitor.

treachery can't be forgiven.

traitor to that feminine faith against which treason on the part of one woman is always unpardonable in the eyes of other women. But her treason would have been of a deeper die had she sent the latter portion

But he is too proud to watch. If you and I were hatching treason against him in the dark, and chance had brought him there, he would stop his ears with his fingers. He is all trust, even when he knows that he is being deceived

Any person advocating Communism, Socialism, or Anarchism, advocating refusal to enlist in case of war, or advocating alliance with Russia in any war whatsoever, shall be subject to trial for high treason, with a minimum penalty of twenty years at hard labor in prison, and a maximum of death on the gallows, or other form of execution which the judges may find convenient.

In the heated atmosphere after the Lincoln assassination, quite a few northerners compared Lee to the infamous John Brown, the abolitionist who was captured, tried, and hanged for the Harper's Ferry raid in 1859. Brown had been found guilty of treason against the state of Virginia after a jury deliberated for only forty-five minutes...Coincidentally, it had been Colonel Robert E. Lee of the US Army that eventually put down John Brown's short-lived rebellion at Harper's Ferry.

We're rowing like Greeks before those trees turn to treason, erased of all their writing.

I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.

A millennial belief in a Holy God may have the effect of deepening the soul, but it is also obviously archaic, and modern influences would presently bring me up to date and reveal how antiquated my origins were. To turn away from those origins, however, has always seemed to me an utter impossibility. It would be a treason to my first consciousness to un-Jew myself.

There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father. The

The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against one's soul.

As T. S. Eliot has said: "The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

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.

The right-minded were those who insisted on colonial liberties. Treason, he held, consisted of the failure to defend those liberties.

Blood transmits a propensity for heart diseases; if it also transmits a propensity for treason, no one has ever been able to prove it.

A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.