[2]
What, then, do we rely upon, and what
security do we get when we risk our money? We rely upon you, men of the jury,
and upon your laws, which ordain that all agreements into which a man
voluntarily enters with another shall be valid. But in my opinion there is no
use in your laws or in any contract, if the one who receives the money is not
thoroughly upright in character, and does not either fear you1 or regard the
rights of the one making the loan.
1 That is, the jury in the law-courts.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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