Boom
“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