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And you too, men of
Athens, if you are willing to
adopt this principle, now if never before, if each citizen is ready to throw off
his diffidence and serve the state as he ought and as he best may, the rich man
paying, the strong man fighting, if, briefly and plainly, you will consent to
become your own masters, and if each man will cease to expect that, while he
does nothing himself, his neighbor will do everything for him, then, God
willing, you will recover your own, you will restore what has been frittered
away, and you will turn the tables upon Philip.
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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