Happy Birthday America!

Today, as we celebrate the 231st "birthday" of the most wonderful country that the mind of man has ever conceived, it would be good to set aside the celebrating just long enough to take a good hard look at the present crop of deceitful politicians of both political parties, and read the words of the Roman statesman, Cicero.


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 gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

For the traitor appears not as 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.

-Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman orator, statesman 42 B.C.

Ed. Note: Do Cicero's words tend to describe anyone that you know?... Think about it!

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