A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within.
An enemy at the gates is less formidable for he is known and carries his
banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly
whispers rustling through all the alleys,heard in the very halls of
government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his
victims,and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the
baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night
He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night
to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it
can no longer resist.
A murderer is less to fear.
The traitor is the plague."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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