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For by these very acts you stand judged the one and
only power in the world incapable of abandoning the common rights of the Greeks
at any price, incapable of bartering your devotion to their cause for any favor
or any profit. And it was natural that he should form this opinion of you and
the contrary opinion of the Argives and Thebans, because he not merely looks to
the present, but also draws a lesson from the past.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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