Demosthenes: “The reason is, that people wish to cast upon your faithful counselors the blame of any untoward events in the war; for…”

For this reason he will show us no mercy, if he get us into his power: and therefore you must make up your minds, that the struggle will be one for life and death.

You can not surely allege, that Aristodemus ought to be of importance at Athens, and Athens to be of no account among the Greeks.

I say, you must either desist from these practices, or blame none but yourselves for the wretched condition of your affairs.

Because our city is the only one where liberty is allowed to speak for the enemy, where a man taking a bribe may safely address the people, though they have been deprived of their possessions.