As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNever was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.
Marcus Tullius CiceroA 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.
Marcus Tullius Cicero