Treason Quotations

The people of our state will no longer tolerate advocates of treason.

If this be treason, make the most of it!

You have to be very careful when you let someone win.

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.

I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason.

We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit.

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.

Only than the villains of the Hierarchy will turn their face to the man hooked by millennia of self treason and will realize that they are on the top of that pyramid due to the one they, the elites, have humiliated and brutalized elites who became what they are due to this MAN! They will realize that they are nothing without this man and only then they will know that they are no longer elites, but people!

What we have detained is people who have tried to overthrow the duly constituted government, and that in my view is treason under the laws of the country,

It is something we will have to deal with. We will deepen investigation and the Justice will have to try army officers under charges of treason .

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.

I was one of 101 black officers arrested. And this was April 12th of 1945; they charged us with the 69th article of war - which is treason during wartime. Actually, what we did helped to get Colonel Davis back to command the group - the composite group here in the states. And also helped integrate the Air Force and the rest of the Armed Forces.

Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.

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

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

Treason as a concept is defunct in the West. To succeed in war, governments need take this change into account.

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.

Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.

In a democratic society, the only treason is silence.

Writing anything is a treason of sorts.

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

We are 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.

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individuals life can and must only belong to himself, no to any society or community, or he is then but a slave. No one can deny another person their right to their life, nor seize by force what is produced by someone else, because that is stealing their means to sustain their life. It is treason against mankind to hold a knife to a man's throat and dictate how he must live his life. No society is more important than the individuals who compose it, or else you ascribe supreme importance, not to man, but to any notion that strikes the fantasy of that society at a never ending cost of lives. Reason and reality are the only means to just laws; mindles wishes, if given sovereignty, become deadly masters.

During his office, treason was no crime. / The sons of Belial had a glorious time.

Strafford who was hurried hence / 'Twixt treason and convenience.

Do not teach treason to your friends and to other seekers. Dress and manners have become polished now; but the inner man has deteriorated in virtue and faith!

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.

It's been imposed upon them by Milosevic who told them they would be guilty of treason to come here, ... (For) Milosevic to argue that it is treason to talk to the rest of Europe ... demonstrates how desperately isolationist he is and what a menace he is to the people of Serbia.

They are not real charges. I don't think in the real world you can charge people with treason and then let them go free. I don't think that has ever happened.

Once again, the shedders of innocent blood, the dwarfs who have only known treachery, treason and aggression, have perpetrated a new crime: the assassination of a senior Iraqi diplomat.

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal

Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

I don't think there's a lawyer alive and working who's ever appeared in any part of a treason case and I think we should tread in that historic territory very carefully,

When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.

One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.

Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason.

Sin is cosmic treason

Bad literature is a form of treason.

What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?

The charges of high treason and genocide are extremely grave as regards the journalists. We call on the Ethiopian government to show the utmost transparency in these cases. Prime Minister Meles Zenawi should not try to defuse the criticism against him at the expense of the freedom or lives of citizens.

The CUD (Coalition for Unity and Democracy) leaders are engaged in insurrection -- that is an act of treason under Ethiopian law. They will be charged and they will appear in court,

Reason is 6/7 of treason.

Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.

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.

Call it peace or call it treason / call it love or call it reason / but I ain't marching anymore

The subject of Citizenfour, Edward Snowden, could not be here for some treason.

The rise of Trump is a repudiation of 30 years of bipartisan treason and failure.

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.

Treason seldom dwells with courage.

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

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.

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.

Disunion by force is treason.

I know that many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like this, is a sort of treason

Treason pleases, but not the traitor.

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst.

Treason is a matter of dates.

The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.

He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.