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for I think I shall be able, with advantage to the
State, to plead the cause both of the poor against the rich and of the
property-owners against the necessitous. If we could banish from our midst both
the obloquy which some heap on the Theoric Fund,1 and also the fear
that the Fund will not be maintained without doing a great deal of harm, we
could not perform a greater service nor one more likely to strengthen the whole
body politic.
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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