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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

T. S. Eliot
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I don't think there's a lawyer alive and working who's ever appeared in any part of a treason case and I think we should tread in that historic territory very carefully.

Lord Carlile
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If someone dares question the Administration's leadership or integrity, they drape a flag over the latest mess and cry 'treason!'. Ironically and unfortunately, this bears a striking resemblance to the way I clean my house.

Jules Carlysle
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Ingratitude is treason to mankind.

James Thomson
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He is able for more than 20 years -- without the Russians ever learning his identity -- to be a spy, to be a solid FBI analyst, to be a patriotic American, to commit treason, to be a church-going man and to have blood on his hands.

David Vise
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To break training without permission is an act of treason.

John Heisman
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What they did is treason. There's no other word for it.

Alan Grayson
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Harold Coffin
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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
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Strafford who was hurried hence / 'Twixt treason and convenience.

John Cleveland
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Impeachment should be reserved for treason, bribery, and high crimes and misdemeanors where the president's actions are great and dangerous offenses or attempts to subvert the Constitution and the most extensive injustice.

George Mason
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

Lord Acton
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I love treason but hate a traitor.

Julius Caesar
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A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Kurt Huber
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Jamie Berger
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[America is] 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
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Oh, treacherous night! thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.

Aaron Hill
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What a joy, that literacy is no longer prima facie evidence of treason.

John Steinbeck
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