O tempora, o mores!

According to Sallust, on this date in 63 BC, Cicero delivered his first oration to the Senate against Lucius Sergius Catilina (Catiline), the corrupt Roman politician who was up for election and who, in Cicero's view, was in large measure responsible for the degradation and ultimate destruction of the republic. 

...iam intelleges multo me vigilare acrius ad salutem quam te ad perniciem rei publicae