“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. For the traitor appears not a traitor – He speaks in the accents familiar 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 undermine the pillar of a city he infects the body politics so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared”
(Cicero 42 BC)
such an apt quote:
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. For the traitor appears not a traitor – He speaks in the accents familiar 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 undermine the pillar of a city he infects the body politics so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared”
(Cicero 42 BC)