A vaccination of education

[Vexari]

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 murder is less to fear


~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~ (106-43 B.C.)

Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator 42 B.C.

Source: Speech in the Roman Senate