This meme is a humorous image of a statue of a famous historical figure, with a quote from Cicero's "De ... (not specified) ... (not specified) ..." in the background. The image shows a statue of a man with a stern expression. The text reads: "A nation can survive its ... (not specified) ... (not specified) ... but it cannot survive ... (not specified) ... (not specified) ...".
2023-05-10T21:03:35+00:00
"A nation can survive its fools... but it cannot survive treason from within. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents EVEN 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 murder is less to fear." -Cicero, 42 B.C. ——_ wv “a cus &- an x ae