The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Disunion by force is treason.
If this be treason, make the most of it!
This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
Bad literature is a form of treason.
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
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