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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 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 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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Wow..that hits damn close to home, don’t it .
Sadly, Terry, yes it does~!
And traitors come in all ages, colors, sizes and, backgrounds, eh? We have so many ‘Trojan horses’ here we could start a ranch the size of several State combined. haha, sorta’
Great pic for today, Grouchy – thanx.
True, Mrs AL,,, And we can start with,,, Well. you pick ’em. And you can’t miss with a choice ~! Like shooting fish in a barrel, as the saying goes.
Gee. So confusing. Was he talking about Obama? Or McCain?? Or Kerry???
OR the other 535 members of the Congress, or the State Legislators, or the SCOTUS, or the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals,,, the list goes on and on, Buck,,,
We need new brooms.
Good one, Grouchy. Give me an enemy out in the open any day. To be betrayed by someone who was trusted is the worst crime of all.
Two-Faced Deceivers are the worst kind, Kathy. You’ve hit the nail square, for sure~!
That’s a great quote Grouchy. It is most appropriate and describes exactly where we are today.
I don’t see a remedy in sight, short of the obvious.
Cicero was a political philosopher in the First century B.C., born January 3, 106 B.C. How ironic, that his writings and those of so many others mirror the events of our day~!