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when the next event occurs, you are again in a bustle of preparation. But that
is not the way. If you trust to occasional levies, you can never gain any of
your essential objects; but you must first raise a force and provide for its
maintenance, and appoint paymasters and clerks, and arrange that there shall be
the strictest watch kept over your expenditure, and afterwards you must demand
from your paymasters an account of their moneys, and from the general an account
of his campaign, and you must leave the general no excuse for sailing elsewhere
or engaging in any other business.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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