The Enemy Within

The Enemy Within

By Marcus Tullius Cicero
February 21, 2016

A nation can survive it' s fools, even the ambitious.

But it cannot survive treason from within.

A enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he
carries his banners openly.

But the traitor moves among 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 traitor, he speaks in accents familiar
to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, 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 pillars of a city, he infects the body politics
so it can no longer resist.

A murderer is less to be feared.

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman orator and statesmen, circa 45 B.C.