Quotes: Treason

If this be treason, make the most of it!

I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.

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

Bad literature is a form of treason.

John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.

Disunion by force is treason.

The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.

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.

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

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.