Honesta oratio, sed ita si bonos et utilis et e re publica civis: sin eos qui natura cives sunt, voluntate hostes, salvos velis, quid tandem intersit inter te et illos?
That is an honorable sentiment, but only if you mean decent citizens, men of use and benefit to the Republic. But should you want the survival of people who are citizens by birth but public enemies by choice, where, I ask, would be the difference between you and them?
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