"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 he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among
those within the gates freely...his sly whispers heard in the very hall of
government itself.
For the traitor appears to be no traitor; he speaks in
the accents familar to his victims...and 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...to infect the body politic so that it
can no longer resist."
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106--43 B.C. )
survive treason from within.
An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for
he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among
those within the gates freely...his sly whispers heard in the very hall of
government itself.
For the traitor appears to be no traitor; he speaks in
the accents familar to his victims...and 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...to infect the body politic so that it
can no longer resist."
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 106--43 B.C. )