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Having before my eyes the spectacle of a city in all
those great enterprises ready to fight the battles of her neighbors, what advice
was I to give and what policy to urge, when her deliberations in some measure
concerned herself? To bear malice against men who were seeking deliverance? To
search for excuses for deserting the common cause? Should I not have deserved
death if even in word I had sought to tarnish our honor able traditions? In
word, I say; for the deed you would never have done. Of that I am well assured,
for if you so wished, what stood in your way? Was it not in your power? Were not
Aeschines and his friends there to advise you?
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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