Treason Quotes
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Smooth runs the water, where the brook is deep; And in his simple show he harbours treason.
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In monarchy the crime of treason may admit of being pardoned or lightly punished, but the man who dares rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.
Samuel Adams— Arguing for a Riot Act which prohibited 12 or more persons from congregating in public and which empowered county sheriffs to kill rioters, during debates prompted by Shays' Rebellion (1786 - 1787) and the death sentences given to many of the rebels; as quoted in Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States (1980), Chapter 5: A kind of Revolution; also quoted in "Completing the American Revolution" by Norman D. Livergood
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— February 3, 1891 as the 1891 election was called, fought largely over the issue of free trade with the United States. [1]
We have no more right to decline the exercise of jurisdiction which is given, than to usurp that which is not given. The one or the other would be treason to the constitution.
john marshall— Cohens v. Virginia, 19 U.S. (6 Wheaton) 264, 387 (1821); with this sentence Marshall hold that the United States Supreme Court has appellate jurisdiction to hear appeals from a state court in a case between a state and its own citizens, even if the case involved interpretation of a federal statute.
They do not ill, being lords of ours, to slay Me; nay, they could not spare: but thee to slay, To spill thy strong young life for truth to me, In all men's eyes would mark them monstrous:;: thou Must live, and serve my slayers, and serving them Sustain my memory by the proof if God Shall give thee grace to prove it that thy name, Thy father's name and mine, in true men's ears Rings truth, and means not treason.
algernon charles swinburne— Faliero, Act V. Sc. 3.
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.
edward coke— Edward Coke, Case of Sutton's Hospital (1612), 5 Rep. 303; 10 Rep. 32 b.
Curse on his virtues! they've undone his country. Such popular humanity is treason.
joseph addison— 1713 Cato, act 4, sc.1, l.205-6.
But treason is not owned when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified.
john dryden— 1682 The Medal, l.207-8.
T'abhor the makers, and their laws approve, Is to hate traitors and the treason love.
john dryden— 1687 The Hind and the Panther, pt.3, l.706-7.
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.
Saul Bellow— Part I, p. 26
While soldiers were winning victories, so-called labor leaders were engaged in high treason.
werner von blomberg— Quoted in "A History of Militarism: Civilian and Military" - Page 430 - by Alfred Vagts - History - 1967
They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they have no souls.
edward coke— Case of Sutton's Hospital, 10 Rep. 32.; 77 Eng Rep 960, 973 (K.B. 1612).
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humour?
— Frank Moore Colby, (1926) The Colby Essays, Vol. 1., "Satire and Teeth". Reported in Robert Andrews, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, Columbia University Press. (1993) ISBN 0231071949. p. 431.
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— "The War Is Over" from Tape from California (1968)
We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit.
carl schurz— "State Rights and Byron Paine," Albany Hall, Milwaukee, (23 March 1859)
As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not."
samuel laman blanchard— "That what Everybody Says must be True"
"Just what kind of noose are you offering to put round my neck, here? Is this treason?" "Worse," Cazaril sighed. "Theology."
lois mcmaster bujold— p. 333 (Cryoburn (2010))
The creation of a legal eligibility allowing the grant of an amnesty for treason is abhorrent and unacceptable. The Bill was supposed to be a search for the truth behind the tragedy of 2000, but the Bill never once mentions the word "truth".
graeme leung— 16 June 2005 parliamentary submission
Most people would define treason as a betrayal of one's country or sovereign. In my book, the book of natural law, treason is properly defined as a betrayal of one's countrymen and, in particular, the betrayal of the individual's right to life, liberty and property. (To your question, yes, this renders almost all politicians traitors by definition.)
ilana mercer— “The Peerless Malevolence of Redcoat Piers Morgan,” WorldNetDaily.com, January 18, 2013.
If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you will eventually be accused of treason.
— Mort Sahl, "Live at the hungry i" (1960 comedy album).
Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor Stands in worse case of woe.
william shakespeare— Cymbeline (1611), Act III, scene 4, line 87.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep; And in his simple show he harbours treason.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II (c. 1590-91), Act III, scene 1, line 53.
All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if the nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
Dame Rebecca formerly Cecily Isabel Fairfield West— "The Meaning of Treason" (Revised edition, 1965), Conclusion, p. 413.
Flight, in criminal cases, is itself a crime. If an innocent man flies for treason or felony, he forfeits all his goods and chattels. Outlawry, in a capital case, is as a conviction for the crime: And many men who never were tried have been executed upon the outlawry.
— Lord Mansfield, Rex v. Wilkes (1769), 4 Burr. Part IV., p. 2549.
Most people would define treason as a betrayal of one's country or sovereign. In my book, the book of natural law, treason is properly defined as a betrayal of one's countrymen and, in particular, the betrayal of the individual's right to life, liberty and property. (To your question, yes, this renders almost all politicians traitors by definition.)
— “The Peerless Malevolence of Redcoat Piers Morgan,” WorldNetDaily.com, January 18, 2013.
No more than a hyena abandons carrion does a Marxist abandon treason.
— Hitler, Adolf (1925), Mein Kampf, Eher Verlag
In peace and honour rest you here, my sons; Rome's readiest champions, repose you here in rest, Secure from worldly chances and mishaps! Here lurks no treason, here no envy swells, Here grow no damned drugs, here are no storms, No noise, but silence and eternal sleep: In peace and honour rest you here, my sons!
— Titus Andronicus, scene i
— Variant line: Here grow no damned grudges, here are no storms,
When squint-eyed Slander plies the unhallow'd tongue,From poison'd maw when treason weaves his line,And Muse apostate (infamy to song!)Grovels, low muttering, at Sedition's shrine.
james beattie— The Judgment of Paris (1765), stanza 109.
treason is but trusted like the fox Who, ne'er so tame, so cherish'd and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (c. 1597), Act V, scene 2, line 9.
