“When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors”
William Shakespeare
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt”
“A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.”
George III
“Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let them label you as they may.”
Mark Twain
“[But his father begged him not to publish the book.] L.B. Mayer called me a traitor, ... 'I blame you for this,' he told my father, 'because you should have stopped him. We should deport him.' That was Hollywood. I often think it was like Venice under the doges.”
Budd Schulberg
“Men's vows are women's traitors!”
“Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor Stands in worse case of woe”