"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 he carries his banners openly against the city.
But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers
rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For
the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his
victim, and he 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 in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he
infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to
be feared. The traitor is the plague."
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