The pic reads: "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. For the traitor appears not as a traitor, but speaks in accents familiar to his citizens and 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 and works secretly to undermine the pillars of the city, infecting the body politic so that it can no longer resist." -- Cicero 106-43 BC.
Added note: The Founding Fathers studied Cicero's writings, and found them to be filled with wisdom. As Rome approached collapse, Cicero was one of the remaining sane voices who, looking back on the history of the empire, recognized what was rotting the empire from within, and bringing about its fall.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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