Top 237 Treason Quotes & Sayings

Treason pleases, but not the traitor.

Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.

The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. Abortion is treason against the family and deserves the death penalty. Adultery is treason to the family; adulterers should be put to death. Homosexuality is treason to the family, and it too, is worthy of death.

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bears arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason,then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.

Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.

If this be treason, make the most of it!

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.

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

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

Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.

The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.

[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.

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

Gentle and giving-all the rest is treason.

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Implications of treason are fed like cubes of sugar to the twelve-headed animal which is justice. In ... opening remarks. In the way questions are asked. In support of lines of questioning where cases of treason are cited and the Judge endorses the relevance of the citation.

Ingratitude is treason to mankind.

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

Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.

The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.

Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Treason is a matter of dates.

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.

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.

I think Bush's immigration proposal is treason and he should be impeached.

Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot... But what of the man? I know his name was Guy Fawkes and I know, in 1605, he attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament.

Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and acts against the oppressions of the government. The latter are virtues, yet have furnished more victims to the executioner than the former. Real treasons are rare; oppressions frequent. The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.

Reason is 6/7 of treason.

But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the Church at this hour, and a heresy because it denies that voice to be Divine. How can we know what antiquity was except through the Church? ... I may say in strict truth that the Church has no antiquity. It rests upon its own supernatural and perpetual consciousness. ... The only Divine evidence to us of what was primitive is the witness and voice of the Church at this hour.

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

All that harms labor is treason to America.

Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

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

I love treason but hate a traitor.

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

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

In the clear mind of virtue treason can find no hiding-place.

I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.

For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled to a traitor's fate!

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.

Disunion by force is treason.

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

In a democratic society, the only treason is silence.

Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

Writing anything is a treason of sorts.

Sin is cosmic treason

Pity is treason.

To break training without permission is an act of treason.

If you begin to have a relationship where you're doing what the guards want, and once you're out you will see that as a treason, a treason to your country, a treason to yourself, a treason to everybody, so you have to be very cautious on what is the perspective you're looking at yourself, and you have always to see yourself like from the outside.

There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000.

Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason.

In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a battlefield - however despicable - are guaranteed a trial by our Constitution. No one argues that Americans who commit treason shouldn't be punished. The maximum penalty for treason is death. But the Constitution specifies the process necessary to convict.

Treason seldom dwells with courage.