Treason Quotes - Page 5

• Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!

  Charles Lamb

  Bravery, Might, Tongue

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• The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.

  Steven Pressfield

  Buckets, Crabs, Leap

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• Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

  R. C. Sproul

  Sovereign, Sin, Authority

  R.C. Sproul (2017). “The R.C. Sproul Collection Volume 2: Essential Truths of the Christian Faith / Now, That's a Good Question!”, p.186, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• For myself, I care not whether treason be committed North or South; he that is guilty of treason is entitled to a traitor's fate!

  Andrew Johnson

  War, Fate, Care

  Andrew Johnson (1866). “Life and Times of A. Johnson ... Written from a national stand-point. By a National Man”, p.131

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• You have to be very careful when you let someone win.

  James Caan

  Winning, Careful

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Names, Atheism

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.46, Delphi Classics

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• Reason is 6/7 of treason.

  James Thurber

  Reason

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• Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in Congress have the right to issue money and to determine the value thereof. And 120 million, 120 million suckers have lamentably failed to insist on the observation of this quite decided law. ... Now the point at which embezzlement of the nation's funds on the part of her officers becomes treason can probably be decided only by jurists, and not by hand-picked judges who support illegality.

  Ezra Pound

  Hands, Law, America

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• If you maintain a consistent political position long enough, you'll eventually be accused of treason.

  Mort Sahl

  Long, Political, Enough

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• All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

  Amelia Barr

  Revolution, Accomplished

  Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (2017). “The Bow of Orange Ribbon: A Romance of New York”, p.237, Library of Alexandria

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• My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew up in a family that was very involved with the legal battles against apartheid—the great treason trials in the 1950s and early '60s, and later with the legal resources center that my mother founded. My father was involved with a number of very prominent cases that had political aspects to them, whether it was the inquest into the Sharpeville Massacre, the death of Steve Biko, or one of the trials of Nelson Mandela.

  William Kentridge

  Mother, Father, Talking

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• The rise of Trump is a repudiation of 30 years of bipartisan treason and failure.

  Roger Stone

  Years, Trump, Bipartisan

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. Abortion is treason against the family and deserves the death penalty. Adultery is treason to the family; adulterers should be put to death. Homosexuality is treason to the family, and it too, is worthy of death.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Abortion, Religion, Atheism

  "Moyers: God and Politics", TV series (1987– ). ""On Earth as It Is in Heaven, 1988.

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• We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

  Daryl Gates

  War, People, Liberty

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• From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

  Lord Acton

  People, Redemption, Appeals

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

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• The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.

  Edward Abbey

  Journey, Blue, Space

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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• Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.

  Cullen Hightower

  America, Citizens, Allegiance

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• The time had come to protest with the heart, that to deny one's genealogy with the earth was to commit treason against one's soul.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Heart, Soul, Earth

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.288, Vintage

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• Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Goal, Joy

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.711, Hamilton Books

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• Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.

  Alan Moore

  Gun, Plot, Reason Why

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• My guard will run you through if he catches you looking at my face," said Arianna. "I don't think so. I think it might be treason to kill a duke," said Luciano. "But you're not a duke," said Arianna. "I will be if you marry me," said Luciano. "Yes, you would be," said Arianna. "Would?" "If you are asking me." "I'm asking." "And if I accepted." "Do you?" "I do. With all my heart.

  Mary Hoffman

  Running, Heart, Thinking

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• The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects to read the Daily Times, government will go down on its knees to him, for this is the only treason these days.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Marine, Men, Independence

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.89, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Military, Hands, Atheism

  Abraham Lincoln, Roy Prentice Basler (1953). “Collected Works: The Abraham Lincoln Association, Springfield, Illinois. Roy P. Basler, Editor; Marion Dolores Pratt and Lloyd A. Dunlap, Assistant Editors”

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• Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that's what global warming is- in order to protect oil company profits, well, that fits for me the definition of treason.

  Bill Maher

  Mass Destruction, Order, Oil

  "Real Time" with Bill Maher, votesmart.org. March 24, 2006.

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• Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.

  Charles Churchill

  Criticism, Reason, Disputes

  Charles Churchill, James L. Hannay (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir by James L. Hannay and Copious Notes by W. Tooke”, p.66

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