There are some things I wanted to talk about today, but I'm pressed for time. Perhaps I can add and edit later. For now, I thought these two quotes were pertinent.
St. Augustine: Nisi crederitis, non intelligetis. You will not understand unless you will have first believed.
Cicero, in 42 B.C. : A nation survives its fools, and even their ambitions. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, with his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor - he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garments, and 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 into the night to undermine the pillars of a city - he infects the body politic so that it cn no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.
*******************************************
11/21/11
No comments:
Post a Comment