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Surely no man will dare to call it becoming that in a man reared at Pella, then a mean and insignificant city,
such lofty ambition should be innate as to covet the dominion of all Greece, and admit that aspiration to his soul,
while you, natives of Athens,
observing day by day, in every speech you hear and ill every spectacle you
behold, memorials of the high prowess of your forefathers, should sink to such
cowardice as by a spontaneous, voluntary act to surrender your liberty to a
Philip.
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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