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

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

Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's person may be with one knife.

O that a soldier so glorious, ever victorious in fight, Passed from a daylight of honor into the terrible night; Fell as the mighty archangel, ere the earth glowed in space, fell-- Fell from the patriot's heaven down to the loyalist's hell!

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries

The great fishpond (the sea).