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• In a free society we're supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, then we're in big trouble. And now, people who are revealing the truth are getting into trouble for it.

  Ron Paul

  New York, Mean, Media

  "Digging Deeper: Jesse Ventura's Alternative Take on American History". abcnews.go.com. April 04, 2011.

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• After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Prayer, Sleep

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

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• As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Fiction, Facts, Belief

  "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "That what Everybody Says must be True", 1846.

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• The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

  T. S. Eliot

  Temptation, Deeds, Lasts

  Murder in the Cathedral pt. 1 (1935)

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• The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Sweet, Men

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 79

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• The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst.

  James Russell Lowell

  Humanity, Traitor

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

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• The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Traitor, Please

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.277, Wordsworth Editions

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• Treacherous people do not last only memories of their treason last.So will it last with emotions mixed, of love and hate for treacherous ones.

  Amit Abraham

  Memories, Hate, People

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• We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Evil, Suffering

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A life of pleasure or virtue, of severity or mildness, of indolence or glory, alike led to an untimely grave; and almost every reign is closed by the same disgusting repetition of treason and murder.

  Edward Gibbon

  Fate, Unhappy, Might

  Edward Gibbon, William George Smith (1857). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.75

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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, Traitor, Cases

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

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• I love discourse. I'm dying to have my mind changed. I'm probably the only liberal who read Treason, by Ann Coulter. I want to know, you understand? I like listening to everybody. This to me is the elixir of life.

  Jack Nicholson

  Listening, Mind, Dying

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

  Kurt Huber

  Punishment, Law, Freedom Of Speech

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• One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.

  Grant Morrison

  Commit, Highest

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• But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

  Charles Bass

  Technology, Community, Levels

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• Americans cannot comprehend how their fellow countrymen could not love their country. But the left's anti-Americanism is intrinsic to their entire worldview. Liberals promote the right of Islamic fanatics for the same reason they promote the rights of adulterers, pornographers, abortionists, criminals, and Communists. They instinctively root for anarchy against civilization. The inevitable logic of the liberal position is to be for treason.

  Ann Coulter

  Country, Islamic, Civilization

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• Cynicism is intellectual treason.

  Norman Cousins

  Intellectual, Literature, Cynicism

  "Human Options". Book by Norman Cousins, December, 1981.

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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Two, Voice, Waiting

  William Shakespeare (1995). “King Henry V: Third Series”, p.174, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

  Lord Acton

  Play, People, Minorities

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.36, Jazzybee Verlag

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• ... it is more than petty treason to the Republic, to call a free citizen a servant. The whole class of young women, whose bread depends upon their labour, are taught to believe that the most abject poverty is preferable to domestic service. Hundreds of half-naked girls work in the paper-mills, or in any other manufactory, for less than half the wages they would receive in service; but they think their equality is compromised by the latter, and nothing but the wish to obtain some particular article of finery will ever induce them to submit to it.

  Frances Trollope

  Girl, Believe, Thinking

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• If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Errors, Imagination, Incompetence

  Richard Hofstadter (2016). “The Paranoid Style in American Politics: An Essay: from The Paranoid Style in American Politics”, p.19, Vintage

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• Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Water, Deception

  The Duke of Suffolk in King Henry VI, Part II (1590), Act III, scene 1.

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• The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Law, Unsuccessful

  Instructions to his negotiators regarding a treaty with Spain, April 1792; cited in Knott, Secret and Sanctioned (1996).

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• I love treason but hate a traitor.

  Julius Caesar

  Love, Hate, Traitor

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• Corruption is knowing when something is not being done, knowing when the American people are being left unprotected and when you make a decision not to do something to protect the American people And you effectively allow 9/11 to occur. That is the ultimate form of government corruption-dereliction of duty. That's subject in the military to prosecution, to court martial. Frankly, if not treason.

  Robert Wright

  Military, Knowing, Government

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