Talk:Treason

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• America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that "treason" is morally worse than murder or rape.
  • William Blum

• Bad literature is a form of treason.
  • Joseph Brodsky

• Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
  • Edward Coke

• 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

• Ingratitude is treason to mankind.
  • James Thomson

• 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

• Pity is treason.
  • Maximilien Robespierre

• Truth is a trust, [whereas] falsehood [is] treason.
  • Abu Bakr

• There are no Soviet prisoners of war, only traitors.
  • Joseph Stalin

• Donna: [After Sam learns the identity of a deceased Communist spy] It was people pushing paper around fifty years ago. Why does it matter?
  Sam: It was high treason, and it mattered a great deal! This country is an idea, and one that’s lit the world for two centuries and treason against that idea is not just a crime against the living! This ground holds the graves of people who died for it, who gave what Lincoln called the last full measure of devotion, of fidelity.
  • The West Wing