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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?
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act I, sc. 1)
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No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.
[Lat., Nemo unquam sapiens proditori credendum putavit.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Orationes In Verrem (II, 1, 15)
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This principle is old, but true as fate,
Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
Author: Thomas Dekker
Source: The Honest Whore (pt. I, act IV, sc. 4)
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Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried;
Successful crimes alone are justified.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Medals (l. 207)
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O that a soldier so glorious, ever victorious in fight,
Passed from a daylight of honor into the terrible night;
Fell as the mighty archangel, ere the earth glowed in space,
fell--
Fell from the patriot's heaven down to the loyalist's hell!
Author: Thomas Dunn English
Source: Arnold at Stillwater
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With evil omens from the harbour sails
The ill-fated ship that worthless Arnold bears;
God of the southern winds, call up thy gales,
And whistle in rude fury round his ears.
Author: Philip Freneau
Source: Arnold's Departure
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Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his
prince's person may be with one knife.
Author: Thomas Fuller
Source: The Holy and Profane States--The Traitor
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Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Author: Sir John Harrington
Source: Of Treason--Epigrams (bk. IV, ep. V)
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Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus--Charles the First, his
Cromwell--and George the Third--("Treason!" shouted the Speaker)
may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most
of it.
Author: Patrick Henry
Source: Speech
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The man who pauses on the paths of treason,
Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
Author: Aaron Hill
Source: Henry V (act I, sc. 1)
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For while the treason I detest,
The traitor still I love.
Author: John Hoole
Source: Metastatio--Romulus and Hersilia (act I, sc. 5)
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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.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves near Washington
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He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
Author: Plutarch
Source: Life of Romulus
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Thou know'st, great son,
The end of war's uncertain, but this certain,
That, if thou conquer Rome, the benefit
Which thou shalt thereby reap is such a name
Whose repetition will be dogged with curses,
Whose chronicle thus writ: 'The man was noble,
But with his last attempt he wiped it out,
Destroyed his country; and his name remains
To th' ensuing age abhorred,' Speak to me son.
Thou hast affected the fine strains of honor,
To imitate the graces of the gods;
To tear with thunder the wide cheeks o' th' air,
And yet to change thy sulphur with a bolt
That should rive an oak.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Coriolanus (Volumnia at V, iii)
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Though those that are betrayed
Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor
Stands in worse case of woe.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Cymbeline (Imogen at III, iv)
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And then I stole all courtesy from heaven,
And dressed myself in such humility
That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts,
Loud shouts and salutations from their mouths
Even in the presence of the crowned king.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (King Henry)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Worcester at V, ii)
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Some guard these traitors to the block of death,
Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Lancaster at IV, ii)
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Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep,
And in his simple show he harbors treason.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Suffolk at III, i)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Lear (Edgar at V, iii)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of King Henry the Fifth (King Henry at II, ii)
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Thou art a traitor.
Off with his head! Now by Saint Paul I swear
I will not dine until I see the same.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at III, iv)
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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?
Author: Frank Moore Colby
Source: None
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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.
Author: Wendell Phillips
Source: None
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Cynicism is intellectual treason.
Author: Norman Cousins
Source: None
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Bad literature . . . is a form of treason.
Author: Joseph Brodsky
Source: None
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To break training without permission is an act of treason.
Author: John Heisman
Source: None
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Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
Author: Douglas Jerrold
Source: None
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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.
Author: Wendell Phillips
Source: None
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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!
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: None
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There is something peculiarly sinister and insidious in even a charge of disloyalty. Such a charge all too frequently places a strain on the reputation of an individual which is indelible and lasting, regardless of the complete innocence later proved.
Author: John Lord O'brian
Source: None
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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.
Author: Theodore Parker
Source: None
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