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Our hearty
assent, men of Athens, is due to
those who insist that we should abide by our oaths and covenants, provided that
they do so from conviction; for I believe that nothing becomes a democratic
people more than zeal for equity and justice. Those, therefore, who are so
emphatic in urging you to this course should not keep wearying you with speeches
which are belied by their practice, but after submitting now to full inquiry,
should either for the future be sure of your assent in these matters, or else
make way for the counsels of those who show a truer conception of what is just,
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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