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

  Cato the Younger

  People, Liberty, Betray

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

  Philip Sidney

  Mind, Virtue, Hiding

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.22

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• When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.

  I. F. Stone

  War, Reason

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• The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Integrity, Errors, Ethical Principles

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.495, Open Road Media

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• In a democratic society, the only treason is silence.

  Anna Quindlen

  Silence, Democratic, Democratic Society

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.102, Random House

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• It is the just decree of Heaven that a traitor never sees his danger till his ruin is at hand.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Hands, Heaven, Ruins

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• No owl is afraid of the night, no snake of the swamp and no traitor of the treason!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Night, Snakes, Owl

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• The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.

  Aaron Hill

  Men, Path, Firsts

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• When I look at the Republicans, I am tempted to dismiss them as the Treason Party. Seriously, were a band of traitors to concoct a series of positions deliberately designed to weaken America, they would be hard pressed to beat the current GOP dogma - hobble education, starve the government by slashing taxes to the rich, kneecap attempts to jumpstart the economy by fixating on debt, invite corporations to dominate political discourse, balkanize the population by demonizing minorities and immigrants and let favored religions dictate social policy.

  Neil Steinberg

  Party, Government, America

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• I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Mean, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.486

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• The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Humanity, Church

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.82

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• Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

  Wendell Phillips

  Writing, Government, People

  Bulletin, Volume 8, Issues 11-18, p. 69,

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

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Ends, Betray, Cautious

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• All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

  Rebecca West

  Sleep, Men, Should Have

  Rebecca West (2010). “The New Meaning of Treason”, p.182, Open Road Media

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• Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty.

  Richard Cushing

  Self, Usa, America

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• Treason is a matter of dates.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Matter

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• This is the deadening consensus that crosses party lines, that dominates our major media, and that is strangling the liberty and prosperity that were once the birthright of Americans. Dissenters who tell their fellow citizens what is really going on are subject to smear campaigns that, like clockwork, are aimed at the political heretic. Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

  Ron Paul

  Lying, Party, Media

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• Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

  Edmund Burke

  Fellowship

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.97

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• 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.

  Ann Coulter

  Enemy, Sides, Position

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• Sometimes duplicity and treason are markers of the enemy, and sometimes, the failed intention of a masterful ally. But, nevertheless, as they burden you with a vexing brand of love, they become nothing more than the kiss of Judas, pressing a crown of thorns into your flesh.

  Addison Webster Moore

  Kissing, Duplicity, Enemy

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• Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

  Joseph Addison

  Country, Integrity, Patriotic

  Joseph Addison (1721). “The preface. Poems on several occasions. Rosamond. An opera. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. An essay of Virgil's Georgics. Cato. A tragedy. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Three setts of medals illustrated by the ancient poets, in the foregoing dialogues”, p.278

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• The portrayal of Senator Joe McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren't cowering in fear during the McCarthy era. They were systematically undermining the nation's ability to defend itself while waging a bellicose campaign of lies to blacken McCarthy's name. Everything you think you know about McCarthy is a hegemonic lie. Liberals denounced McCarthy because they were afraid of getting caught, so they fought back like animals to hide their own collaboration with a regime as evil as the Nazis.

  Ann Coulter

  Lying, Thinking, Animal

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”, p.20, Crown Forum

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sacrilege

  'Hansard' 27 February 1871

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• There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth

  Lord Byron

  Speech, Plant, Traitor

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• I'm wary of a certain human nature. More than anything, I fear treason.

  Mylene Farmer

  Human Nature, Certain, Humans

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