“No man expects such exact fidelity as a traitor.”
De Ira (On Anger): Book 2, cap. 28, line 7.
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fidei acerrimus exactor est perfidus
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Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4–65 BCRelated quotes
“As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.”
Book II, Ch. 12
Essais (1595), Book II
“No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.”
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
“Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.”
Remark made by Johnson as military Governor of Tennessee, as quoted in A Reveiw of the Political Conflict in America (1876) by Alexander Harris, A Review of the Political Conflict in America http://books.google.com/books?id=SSJCAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA430&lpg=RA3-PA430&dq=%22Whenever+you+hear+a+man+prating+about+the+constitution,+spot+him+as+a+traitor.%22&source=bl&ots=qaAT3IyIjL&sig=BUycxkmzVIjpEmfNI5s_FxcjlvE&hl=en&ei=S_evS5jJO8H-8Abe5KSABw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CBMQ6AEwBA, p. 430.
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"On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves Near Washington" (1845)
“Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.”
Of Studies
Essays (1625)
Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/911713887061409797 (23 September 2017)
2017
“The young man who joins a political party is a traitor to his generation and to his race.”
For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Politics
Captain Thomas Leroy, and Captain Richard Sharpe, p. 81
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Company (1982)