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I shall, however, try to prove to you
that you must not quail before his power nor offer a half-hearted resistance,
but must enter the war with an unsparing provision of men, money, and
ships—in a word, with all your resources. For first, men of Athens, you may reasonably expect that your
mightiest allies and supporters will be those gods whose sanction he has flouted
and whose name he has taken in vain through his unjust violation of the peace.
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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