Definition of Treason

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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

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

If this be treason, make the most of it!
Patrick Henry

Disunion by force is treason.
Andrew Jackson

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

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Ovid

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

Cynicism is intellectual treason.
Norman Cousins

Pity is treason.
Maximilien Robespierre

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
Rebecca West

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.
Josiah Royce

Treason Translations

treason in German is Verrat
treason in Latin is proditio, proditio

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