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[32]
If, however, there are many politicians who
recklessly take up this position, perhaps the pay they receive from their
employers is chiefly responsible, but nevertheless you too must bear some of the
blame. For you ought to have the same feeling about the post a man occupies in
politics as about the post he occupies in war. What feeling do I refer to? You
consider that the man who deserts the post where his general has stationed him
deserves to be disfranchised and deprived of his share in our common privileges.
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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