Quotes with treason

  • The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
  • All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

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  • Sir Edward Coke Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
    Sir Edward Coke
    English barrister, judge, and politician
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  • William Shakespeare 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
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Robert Frost 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 at the end of a love or a season.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Rebecca West 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
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Norman Cousins Cynicism is intellectual treason.
    Human Options (1981)
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Samuel Johnson 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
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • James Thomson Ingratitude is treason to mankind.
    James Thomson
    Scottish poet (1700 - 1748)
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  • Frank Moore Colby 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
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • George Bernard Shaw 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
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aaron Hill Oh, treacherous night! thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Ayn Rand Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.
    The Romantic Manifesto (1969)
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • T. S. Eliot The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Aaron Hill The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bruce Fairchild Barton To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance. To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul.
    The Man Nobody Knows (1924) On Jesus, in Ch. 1 : The Executive
    Bruce Fairchild Barton
    American author, advertising executive, and politician (1886 - 1967)
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  • J. Harington Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason, for if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
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  • Sir John Harington Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
    Of Treason
    Sir John Harington
    English courtier and poet (1561 - 1612)
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  • Douglas Jerrold Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Theodore Parker We are 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
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Carl Schurz We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit.
    State Rights and Byron Paine, Albany Hall, Milwaukee, (23 March 1859)
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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