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In a word, without increasing or lessening our expenditure by more than a
trifle, I claim to have removed anomalies and introduced order into the state,
establishing a uniform system of pay and of service, whether in the field or in
the law-courts or wherever each man finds a task suited to his own age and to
the needs of the occasion. Never have I suggested that we should give the
worker's wages to the drone, or that we should ourselves remain inactive, idle,
and helpless, and only learn by report that So-and-so's mercenaries have won a
victory. For that is what happens now.
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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