This is a list of people convicted of treason.
Some countries, such as the U.S., have a high constitutional hurdle to conviction for treason, while many countries, especially absolute monarchies and dictatorships, have less stringent definitions.
Read more about List Of People Convicted Of Treason: Armenia, Austria, Austria-Hungary, Canada, China, Republic of Congo, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, England, Estonia, Fiji, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hawaii, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, Scotland, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Zimbabwe
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, people, convicted and/or treason:
“A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Weigh what loss your honor may sustain
If with too credent ear you list his songs,
Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open
To his unmastered importunity.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Lord, how long?”
—Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 6:11.
Asking how long will the chastisement of the people last. God replies, “Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, and the Lord have removed man far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.”
“Should the conflagration climb,
Run till all the sages know.
We the great gazebo built,
They convicted us of guilt;
Bid me strike a match and blow.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“There’s such divinity doth hedge a king
That treason can but peep to what it would,
Acts little of his will.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)