“Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
Epigrams, Book iv, Epistle 5. Compare: "Prosperum ac felix scelus/ Virtus vocatur" ("Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue"), Seneca, Herc. Furens, ii. 250.
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John Harington (writer)4
English courtier and author 1560–1612Related quotes
“Call it peace or call it treason,
Call it love or call it reason,
But I ain't marching anymore!”
Phil Ochs (1940–1976) American protest singer and songwriter
"I Ain't Marching Anymore"
Lyrics
“Globalization is the economic treason that dare not speak it name.”
Patrick Buchanan (1938) American politician and commentator
2000s, Where the Right Went Wrong (2004)
Ernest Gellner (1925–1995) Czech anthropologist, philosopher and sociologist
Source: Nations and Nationalism (1983), Chapter 6, Social Entropy And Equality, p. 87
“Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Adversity
Essays (1625)
“The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.”
T.S. Eliot Murder in the Cathedral
Variant: The last act is the greatest treason. To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Source: Murder in the Cathedral
“The snow covers many a dunghill, so doth prosperity many a rotten heart.”
Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) English Puritan
page 87
Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652
“While soldiers were winning victories, so-called labor leaders were engaged in high treason.”
Werner von Blomberg (1878–1946) German field marshal
Quoted in "A History of Militarism: Civilian and Military" - Page 430 - by Alfred Vagts - History - 1967
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Speaking in Cincinnati about Democrats did not clap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjwPiE1wCU0 during his State of the Union Address (5 February 2018) <br class="br">2010s, 2018, February
