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