[SWAMPSNIPER]

"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

[Nooseman]

One hellafied post.makes me feel like laerning even more history.now if i can juist remember!

[Sherman Logan]

It is relevant that this quote from Cicero was part of a speech by which he persuaded the Senate to suspend the Constitution and allow him to execute without trial anyone he suspected of being an Enemy of the State.

This created a very bad precedent for the Roman government and I really don’t think it’s one we want to follow.

Not that the Roman Republic wasn’t already on its last legs by this point.