Treason
The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery.
Loosely, the betrayal of any trust or confidence; treachery; perfidy.
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Treason Quotations
Disunion by force is treason.
Andrew Jackson
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T. S. Eliot
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.
Stephen Fry
Cynicism is intellectual treason.
Norman Cousins
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
If this be treason, make the most of it!
Patrick Henry
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
John Harrington
Pity is treason.
Maximilien Robespierre
Bad literature is a form of treason.
Joseph Brodsky
I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.
Cornel West
Treason Translations
treason in German is Verrat
treason in Latin is proditio, proditio
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