Nicholas Breton Quotes
Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
Breton, Nicholas. The Works in Verse and Prose of Nicholas Breton. Edited by Alexander B. Grosart, vol. 1, Edinburgh University Press, 1879.
Arnold was not just any senior officer, but one who had been a great fighter against the British not only, leading his men brilliantly but exposed himself to great danger in the process. He had been such a hero that Washington could not imagine how an officer like that could become a traitor to the cause. Arnold’s treasom had nothing to do with ideology or the issues of the war. Arnold felt that he had not been appreciated for his efforts (his commanding officer gave him no credit for the most heroic and effective military battlefield leadership up to that point in the war) and became disaffected.
In 1904, candidate Theodore Roosevelt solicited campaign funds from leading businessmen. After he was elected, he was viewed to have "turned" on them since he attempted to curtail monopolistic excess, instituted regulation, and made other business reforms. This is the original remark, but another, more sanitized version appeared in New York Times and other places as: “We bought him and he did not stay bought.”
Treason has often been committed by those must trusted in a nation.
Clay came from the western part of Kentucky—then the "western" part of the United States.
George W. Bush. The leak was a felony to which the elder Bush was particularly sensitive as he had served as the CIA Director. The younger Bush did not take aggressive measures to find out which of his staff had provided the unauthorized and classified information to the press.
Paine had been imprisoned in France for his political writings. After inspiring the nation in the Revolution, he was not a very popular figure in America, being regarded as an atheistic, rabble-rouser. The President distanced himself from the situation and did nothing to secure Payne's release.
Nicholas Breton (also Britton or Brittaine) (1545–1626), English poet and novelist, belonged to an old family settled at Layer Breton, Essex.
