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. The traitor is the plague.
Category: corruption
Too bad it’s not our money
We have the best Congress that money can buy.
Circumspection and distrust
[T]here is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.
Big cities and corruption
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.