Cicero Quote on Traitors: Enemy Within the Gates T-Shirt

I rank Roman statesman Cicero among the Founding Fathers, because in many ways he was one of them, just a few hundred years removed. "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 FEAR." We watch our public servants and we are mystified by their apparently self defeating and idiotic actions. Are they really that stupid? No they're not. They're probably just clever but treasonous, working to hasten the destruction of the republic, so they can be noblemen in the feudal tyranny to follow. And I'll bet you dollars to donuts that they belong to the Council on Foreign Relations.