C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Traitor
The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.
Victor Hugo.
’Tis not sensible to call a man traitor that has an army at his heels.
Selden.
An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.
Shakespeare.
When Philip of Macedon was told that a certain city was impregnable, “Is there not a pathway to it,” he asked, “wide enough for an ass laden with gold!”
Plutarch.