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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

I will not betray my country.

I have never been a traitor. I am not an informer; I never betrayed my nation.

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.