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Treason doth never prosper? What's the reason? for if it prosper, none dare call it treason. [8] Around that time, Harington also devised England's first flushing toilet – called the Ajax (i.e., a "jakes", then a slang word for toilet). It was installed at his manor in Kelston. This forerunner to the modern flush toilet had a flush valve to ...
Harington is the author of a two-line poem, "Of treason." It reads thus: "Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason?/ For if it prosper, none dare call it treason." Those last five words became a catchphrase of the John Birch Society during the Cold War period in the United States and the title of a book by John A. Stormer.
John Anthony Stormer (February 9, 1928 – July 10, 2018) was an American Protestant anti-communist author, best known for his 1964 book None Dare Call It Treason. Both a pastor and a Christian school superintendent, his books have sold millions, warning America about the communist infiltration of American society, politics and culture.
During this entire period, he consistently recycled what George Creel described as his stock phrases: "Treason is a crime and must be punished," "Treason must be made odious," and "What may be mercy to the individual is cruelty to the state." [10] "I asked him for his autograph. He wrote 'Treason must be made odious and traitors punished.'"
The quotes from the World Trade Center site can be found in September Morning: Ten Years of Poems and Readings from the 9/11 Ceremonies New York City, compiled and edited by Sara Lukinson.
There's epigram of Sir John Harington's, writing shortly after this time, that seems apposite to the question of treason and the "assurance": Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason. Thomas Peardew 11:39, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
"Treason! treason!" [17] — Richard III of England (22 August 1485), when deserted by his best troops at the Battle of Bosworth Field "I know only Jesus the crucified." [15]: 167 — Wessel Gansfort, Dutch theologian and humanist (4 October 1489) "I hope never again to commit a mortal sin, nor even a venial one, if I can help it." [17]
Ironically, the first attempt to constrain the development of constructive treasons in England was the 1351 Act itself. Its preamble states that Parliament had decided to define treason by statute for the first time because the common law definition had expanded so widely (however this had not been constructive treason, since until 1351 treason had always been defined by judges, not by ...