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And they have taken up a reasonable attitude;
for as long as we, single-handed, can maintain an unchallenged supremacy at sea,
we can devise other and stronger defences on land in addition to our existing
forces, especially if by good fortune we can get rid of these politicians, who
have for their bodyguard the hosts of tyranny, and if some of them are destroyed
and others conclusively proved to be worthless.
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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