“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
“There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth”
Lord Byron
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries”
Thomas Jefferson
“Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason”
John Harington
“Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal”
William Allen White
“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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