Benedict Arnold Quotes

When Americans really agree that corruption is treason, the traitors will be punished, not legally alone, but as [Benedict] Arnold was, by the insufferable and blasting scorn of his fellow men.

The treachery of [General William] Hull, like that of [Benedict] Arnold, cannot be a matter of blame for our government.

He was born in 1741, a descendant of the Rhode Island equivalent of royalty. The first Benedict Arnold had been one of the colony's founders, and subsequent generations had helped to establish the Arnolds as solid and respected citizens.

Benedict Arnold CEOs send American jobs overseas.

How can Benedict Arnold be reliable in what he says?

Millions of Americans cannot tell you who lived at Mount Vernon or who wrote the Declaration of Independence - let alone the Emancipation Proclamation. But they know that to be 'a Benedict Arnold' is to be a traitor of the deepest dye - someone who coldly betrays not only a sacred cause but every moral scruple along the way.

Wall Street is the colossal and aggregate Benedict Arnold of the Union, and the syndicated Judas Iscariot of humanity.

It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we do know that on September 25, 1778, he wrote her a love letter - much of it an exact copy of one he'd sent to another woman six months before. But if the overheated rhetoric was recycled, Arnold's passion was genuine.