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• A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.

  Marie Howe

  Crime, Retribution, Treachery

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• The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

  David Lloyd George

  Party, Men, Fire

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• Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your
  country, let men label you as they may.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Integrity, 4th Of July

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• I think the most tortured place in hell should be reserved not for traitors, but... for cowards. The weakest, most spineless losers. Because it seems to me that traitors? At least they made a choice. But cowards? They just run around biting their fingernails, totally afraid to do anything. Which is totally worse.

  Lauren Kate

  Running, Thinking, Choices

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.160, Delacorte Press

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• A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.

  Lysander Spooner

  Practice, Enemy, Criminals

  Henry Bool, Lysander Spooner, Edwin C. Walker (1972). “Individualist anarchist pamphlets”

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• Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.

  Andrew Johnson

  Men, Constitution, Spots

  "A Reveiw of the Political Conflict in America" by Alexander Harris, (p. 430), 1876.

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• Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  William Shakespeare (1838). “The Pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. [8 vols., including a vol. entitled William Shakspere, by C. Knight].”, p.281

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• Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors.

  Stephen A. Douglas

  War, Men, United States

  Last public speech before his death, Chicago, Illinois, May 1, 1861.

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• Haste to disgrace the traitor. Do not wait 'til later.

  Jesse Lacey

  Waiting, Haste, Disgrace

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• Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

  Lillian Hellman

  Truth, Honesty, Doe

  Scoundrel Time (1976)

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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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• We must be brief when traitors brave the field.

  William Shakespeare

  Brave, Fields, Brevity

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.516, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.

  Graham Greene

  Trust, Cities, Insecurity

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Half, Patriot

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain speaking”

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• So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Ignorance, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.206, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Rome, Built, Unarmed

  "In Rufinum". II. 52. Reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 677, 1922.

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• Treason pleases, but not the traitor.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Treason, Please

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• Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Earth, Causes, Be True To Yourself

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst.

  James Russell Lowell

  Humanity, Treason

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

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• We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter -- exactly as boys under monarchies are taught and have always been taught. We teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt, such as do not shout with the crowd, and so here in our democracy we are cheering a thing which of all things is most foreign to it and out of place -- the delivery of our political conscience into somebody else's keeping. This is patriotism on the Russian plan.

  Mark Twain

  Cheer, Boys, Hands

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.349, Courier Corporation

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• Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and a barrier against them. It produces excellent writers, and encourages men of fine genius.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Freedom Of Speech, Liberty

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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, Treason

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• Our job as Americans and as Republicans is to dislodge the traitors from every place where they've been sent to do their traitorous work.

  Joseph McCarthy

  Jobs, Republican

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• Men's vows are women's traitors

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Women, Vow

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.235

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• Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe

  William Shakespeare

  Woe, Cases, Treason

  1610 Innogen. Cymbeline, act 3, sc.4, l.85-7.

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