A nation cannot survive treason from within.
The traitor appears not as a traitor:
He speaks in accents familiar to his victims.
He wears their face and their arguments.
He rots the soul of a nation, working secretly, unknown in the night.
He undermines 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