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For it is the
decision that you pronounce on oath on every question which is annulled and made
worthless by the law proposed by the defendant; and his object is not any public
benefit to the State,—that is impossible, for his law robs those
Courts of Justice, which are the pillars of the constitution, of all power to
impose the additional penalties attached by the laws to
transgressions,—but that certain of those men who have long battened
on your substance and pillaged your property may not even refund moneys which
they were openly caught in the act of embezzling.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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