There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified.

There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon them on account of their birth in the country, or that they will be judged by any different rule, on the subject of treason, than persons of foreign birth.

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

Disunion by force is treason.

Ingratitude is treason to mankind.

This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.

In Scientology, in the Ethics Conditions, as you go down from Normal through Doubt, then you get to Enemy, and, finally, near the bottom, there is Treason.

I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all.

We ought instead of retreating should follow up the enemy and take Richmond. And in full view of all responsible for such declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason.

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

Doing drag in a male-dominant culture is an act of treason. It's the most punk-rock thing you can do.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.