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. The traitor is the plague.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, 106-43 BC
Bartholomew Roberts, the real “Dread Pirate Roberts”, understood this perfectly. He chose his subordinate captains for loyalty rather than slavish obedience to orders. He didn’t care if they did things without waiting for orders, as long as what they did was the right thing from his point of view.
And you really, really didn’t want to be the one who tried to double-cross him.
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– Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, 106-43 BC
Bartholomew Roberts, the real “Dread Pirate Roberts”, understood this perfectly. He chose his subordinate captains for loyalty rather than slavish obedience to orders. He didn’t care if they did things without waiting for orders, as long as what they did was the right thing from his point of view.
And you really, really didn’t want to be the one who tried to double-cross him.
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“…..most of the aristocracy and half the governments would fall.”
And…….you talk like this would be a bad thing?!?
Trump is either in the files or he took
Massive bribes to hide them. Bigger than Watergate?