Traitor Quotes

Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us.

I love the treason but hate the traitor.

The Fifth Column.

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

A rigid, fanatic, ambitious, selfishly partisan and sectional turncoat with too much genius and too little common sense, who will either die a traitor or a madman.

[Theodore Roosevelt] has sold himself to the devil and will live up to the bargain.

No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

A traitor is a good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

The seventh rule of the ethics of means and ends is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics. The judgment of history leans heavily on the outcome of success or failure; it spells the difference between the traitor and the patriotic hero. There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father.

Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe

When the Bangladesh war happened, people in Pakistan who did not support it were called unpatriotic. My father was in the jail at that time, and a lot of those who knew my family used to call us children of a traitor.

Robbery is a crime; rape is a crime; murder is a crime; treason is a crime and crime must be punished. The law provides for it, and the courts are open. Treason must be made infamous and traitors must be impoverished.

When I heard Edward Snowden's story, it reminded me of my mother in a strange way. She was in the French resistance from early on, 1941. At that time, the Resistance were considered troublemakers - even traitors - in France.

Yes, citizens, Iturbide was a traitor, a hypocrite and an impious man who destroyed the assembly in which the people had deposited their sovereignty in order to appropriate it all to himself

The ninth, the worst circle of the Inferno - Dante intended it for traitors.

When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor.

Treason pleases, but not the traitor.

Snowden is not the disease. We don't have traitors or whistleblowers blooming all over because they are some sort of malady. The disease is war. We've been at war now and with no end in sight for over a dozen years, the longest in our history. War breeds tyranny. War breeds people who want to prosecute and persecute those who reveal that tyranny. So what we have is the government becoming more draconian - clearly understandable. It always does in a period of war. And as it becomes more draconian, more and more whistleblowers coming.

I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.

(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!

Even though the treason be approved, the traitor is always abhorred.

An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.

Arnold is a traitor, and has fled to the British! Whom can we trust now?

One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.