Demosthenes: “To call him perjured and treacherous, without showing what he has done, might justly be termed idle abuse.”

On many occasions, men of Athens, one may see the kindness of the gods to this country manifested, but most signally, I think, on the present.

As, therefore, by such means he rose, when every people imagined he would advance their interest, so ought he by the same means to be pulled down again, when the selfish aim of his whole policy is exposed.

So report says, and I can well believe it; for undeserved success leads weak-minded men into folly; and thus it appears often, that to maintain prosperity is harder than to acquire it.

The present crisis, O Athenians, requires, if any ever did, much thought and counsel.