[23]
As for the other questions touching this campaign, each
individual is at liberty to draw conclusions according to his judgement, but
what has become manifest to all living men alike is this—that, in
effect, the freedom of the whole Greek world was being preserved in the souls of
these men. At any rate, since fate removed them, not one of those remaining has
made a stand against the foe. While I desire that my words may be free from
offence, it seems to me that if one should declare that the valor of these men
was the very life of Greece he would speak the truth;
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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