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• In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.

  Edmund Spenser

  Revenge, Hate, Heart

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• All that harms labor is treason to America.

  Abraham Lincoln

  America, Presidential, Unions

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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• To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Unions, Truth Is

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• I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

  Cornel West

  Believe, Black, Criticism

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• Bad literature is a form of treason.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Literature, Form

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• The first ape who became a man thus committed treason against his own kind.

  Mikhail Turovsky

  Men, Apes, Firsts

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• New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Truth, Political, Politics

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• Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?

  Robert Frost

  Love, Heart, Acceptance

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.155, Harvard University Press

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

  Plutarch

  Traitor, Hated

  Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne (1873). “Plutarch's Lives Translated from the Original Greek: With Notes, Historical and Critical, and a Life of Plutarch”, p.74

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• [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.

  Theodore Parker

  Mother, Betrayal, Blood

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• 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.

  Jane Fonda

  Law, Vietnam, Has Beens

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• 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.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Real, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.353

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• Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.

  William Shakespeare

  Names, Teeth, Noble

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1994). “The First Quarto of King Lear”, p.122, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

  Patrick Henry

  History, Brutus, Firsts

  Speech in Virginia House of Burgesses,Williamsburg, Va., May 1765.

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• Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.

  John Dryden

  Trust

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• The fact is that the two years or so after 9/11 were a terrible time in America – a time of political exploitation and intimidation, culminating in the deliberate misleading of the nation into the invasion of Iraq. It’s probably worth pointing out that I’m not saying anything now that I wasn’t saying in real time back then, when Bush had a sky-high approval rating and any criticism was denounced as treason. And there’s nothing I’ve done in my life of which I’m more proud.

  Paul Krugman

  Real, Approval Rating, Years

  "More About the 9/11 Anniversary". krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. September 12, 2011.

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• 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.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Usa, Matter, Highest

  "A Man Without a Country". Essay collection by Kurt Vonnegut, September 15, 2005.

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• Treason pleases, but not the traitor.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Traitor, Please

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• John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.

  John Sergeant Wise

  John Brown, Murder, Slave

  John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.91, Anza Publishing

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• I shouldn't be saying this, high treason really, but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that may not really be there.

  Stephen Fry

  May, Sometimes, Wonder

  "Some British actors are overrated by Hollywood, claims Fry" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2007.

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• Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Foxes, Tricks

  1596-7 Worcester. Henry IV Part One, act 5, sc.2, l.9-11.

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• Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

  Frank Moore Colby

  Inspirational, Humor, Men

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• 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.

  L. Neil Smith

  Gun, People, Second Amendment

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• To break training without permission is an act of treason.

  John Heisman

  Training, Break, Permission

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• There's such divinity doth hedge a king
  That treason can but peep to what it would.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Kings And Queens, Divinity

  "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark".

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