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What, I ask you, can they urge against
the correctness of this view? Will they claim that the agreement stands good as
against our city, but demur to it where it protects our interests? Does it
really seem fair that this should be so? And if there is anything in the treaty
that favors our enemies against our city, will they always make the most of it,
but if there is anything that tells the other way and is at once just and
advantageous to us, will they think that unremitting opposition is their
peculiar duty?
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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