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Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Disunion by force is treason.

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.

In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory.

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

Pity is treason.

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.

Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.

Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.

Ideas don't desert you; ideas aren't treasonous to you, but people can be.