A timeless quote.....for the times we live in

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 he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor-he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and 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 a city-he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.......Cicero, 42 B.C.E.

That Glen Beck has got to go!!!

I have to agree with Cicero, but I think the subject title on this should be A Timeless Quote.

I took your advice Bam....

Rose wrote:

That Glen Beck has got to go!!!

Now now Rose....I know you don't watch Glen Beck.

Another "timeless" quote....only much more recent......


"Freedom is but a fragile thing and never but one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance. It must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it only comes once to a people. Those who have known freedom and lost it have never known freedom again". President Ronald Reagan

baldar77 wrote:

I took your advice Bam....

Sort of... but I'd have said "for all time".

More to the point, I don't think there's any more likelihood that it's happening here now than it was 1 year ago, 5 years ago, 20 years ago, etc.

baldar77 wrote:

Rose wrote:

That Glen Beck has got to go!!!

Now now Rose....I know you don't watch Glen Beck.

No, but highlights of his near daily idiocy abound.