This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Disunion by force 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.
After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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.
It is to be remedied that the false traitors will suffer no man to come into the king's presence for no cause without bribes where none ought to be had. Any man might have his coming to him to ask him grace or judgment in such case as the king may give.
Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.
Bad literature is a form of treason.
I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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