...[A] rebel who is inaccurate and mad is a traitor.

although the treason pleases, yet is the traitor hated.

Writing <em>anything</em> is a treason of sorts.

I love treason but hate a traitor.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.

When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

The Truth, but not the whole Truth. Nothing demands more caution than the truth: ’tis the lancet of the heart. It requires as much to tell the truth as to conceal it. A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity. The deceit is regarded as treason and the deceiver as a traitor, which is worse. Yet not all truths can be spoken: some for our own sake, others for the sake of others. clxxxii

The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.

Look well that you unto no vice assent, lest you be damned for your evil intent. For she who does so is a traitor, certainly. And take heed of what I shall say: of all the treasons, the greatest wickedness is the betrayal of innocence.

In these meetings of all sorts, every counsel, in proportion as it is daring and violent and perfidious, is taken for the mark of superior genius. Humanity and compassion are ridiculed as the fruits of superstition and ignorance. Tenderness to individuals is considered as treason to the public.

Here are thieves and robbers and tribunals: and they that are called tyrants, who deem that they have after a fashion power over us, because of the miserable body and what appertains to it. Let us show them that they have power over none.

I think any man would be a traitor to humanity who didn’t pledge every effort of his waking life to an attempt to make war impossible in future.