To: dragonblustar
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
50 posted on
06/16/2016 11:40:55 AM PDT by
proust
(Trump/Sessions 2016!)
To: proust; All
" 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 One of my favorites, along with Edmund Burke.
81 posted on
06/16/2016 12:25:47 PM PDT by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: proust
He is part of the Fifth Column!
85 posted on
06/16/2016 12:37:00 PM PDT by
hoosiermama
(Trump is exposing the Fifth Column in the US)
To: proust
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
No truer statement has ever been made. But in our absurd topsy turvy world of propaganda first, truth last, those who make such politically accurate statements are typically called bigots or racists by the real usurpers and bigots guilty of the above.
125 posted on
06/16/2016 4:47:29 PM PDT by
apoliticalone
(Political correctness should be defined as news media that exposes political corruption)
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