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Now, admitting these great advantages, I cannot deny that Philip has used the
peace to forestall us in occupying many fortresses, harbors, and other points of
vantage; only I observe that when a league is knit together by goodwill, and
when all the allied states have the same interests, then the coalition stands
firm; but when, like Philip's, it is based on treachery and greed and maintained
by fraud and violence, then on some slight pretext or by some trifling slip it
is instantly shattered and dissolved.
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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