Joseph McCarthy
Politician
"Our job as Americans and as Republicans is to dislodge the traitors from every place where they've been sent to do their traitorous work."
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Traitor
51 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Aeschylus
Playwright
"I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted."
Julius Caesar
Military General, Statesman
"I love treason but hate a traitor."
William Wallace
Political Leader
"I cannot be a traitor, since I never swore fealty to the English king."
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"Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe"
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"There is no greater anti-Semite that the Jewish one, and none hates the Jewish people more than the Jewish traitor and apostate."
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"Treason pleases, but not the traitor."
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"The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst."
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"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."
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"Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature."
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"We must be brief when traitors brave the field."
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"The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious."
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"He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor."
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"Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes."
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"It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did."
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"One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors."
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"I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world."
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"I'm not very impressed by people who yell "traitor" and "communist" and other less printable things. I don't like it."
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"External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp."
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"It never gets old, being told you are a traitor and in league with the terrorists because you disagree with current administration policy."
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"There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth"
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