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My idea of our
duty—do not drown with your clamor what I am about to say, but hear me
before you judge—my idea is that, as we have devoted a meeting of the
Assembly to the question of receiving the dole, so we ought also to devote a
meeting to organization and to equipment for war; and everyone must show himself
not merely ready to hear what is said, but also willing to act, so that you may
depend on yourselves, Athenians, for your hopes of success, and not be always
asking what service this individual or that is rendering.
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