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
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“The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935)
“I made a list of things I have
to remember and a list
of things I want to forget,
but I see they are the same list.”
—Linda Pastan (b. 1932)
“The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day ... a movement is only people moving.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)
“The variables of quantification, ‘something,’ ‘nothing,’ ‘everything,’ range over our whole ontology, whatever it may be; and we are convicted of a particular ontological presupposition if, and only if, the alleged presuppositum has to be reckoned among the entities over which our variables range in order to render one of our affirmations true.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!
Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,
Whilst bloody treason flourished over us.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)