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<blockquote data-quote="StLPro2A" data-source="post: 3980598" data-attributes="member: 48052"><p>“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.”</p><p>An excerpt from "A Pillar of Iron" by Taylor Caldwell depicting the spirit of ancient Rome in its last days of glory. The hero of the story, the man called "a pillar of iron" is Marcus Tullius Cicero, the lawyer-statesman who tried vainly to save the republic he loved from the forces of tyranny.</p><p></p><p>America has been over run. Nary a shot fired in defense. History.....learn from it; repeat it; or, die from it.</p><p></p><p>Mr. Makowski, 10th Grade World History, was right after all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="StLPro2A, post: 3980598, member: 48052"] “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.” An excerpt from "A Pillar of Iron" by Taylor Caldwell depicting the spirit of ancient Rome in its last days of glory. The hero of the story, the man called "a pillar of iron" is Marcus Tullius Cicero, the lawyer-statesman who tried vainly to save the republic he loved from the forces of tyranny. America has been over run. Nary a shot fired in defense. History.....learn from it; repeat it; or, die from it. Mr. Makowski, 10th Grade World History, was right after all. [/QUOTE]
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