A Nation Cannot Last With Treason

A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within for the traitor appears not to be a traitor; he rots the soul of a nation; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman statesman, scholar, and philosopher; 106-43 BC)

The USA's Threat Within

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

Douglas MacArthur

A Nation Cannot Survive Treason

HT to J.L. Pattison

A Nation Cannot Survive Treason Within

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Cited by David Kupelian in, How Evil Works, p.23-24