As I recall, it went something like this...It is not the foreign enemy we should fear, but the enemy within. Someone speaks like us, but works from within to subvert our values. Anyone got a clue about this?
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The only other quote I know like that one is by Ciicero;
“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.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero
That's the one! Thank you very much.
Thanks for replying. I was about to give up. That is not the quote I was looking for. It was about how a foreigner could infiltrate us by acquiring a position of power, then using that position to deliberately undermine the moral values and political resolve of his enemies. Kind of like how Obama is doing, according to some people.