Demosthenes: “You behold Philip, I said, a dispenser of gifts and promises: pray, if you are wise, that you may never know him for a…”

Such is the truth, spoken with perfect freedom, purely from good-will and for the best: not a speech fraught with flattery and mischief and deceit, to earn money for the speaker, and to put the commonwealth into the hands of our enemies.

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

They say that you should keep quiet, though you are injured; but they can not themselves keep quiet among you, though no one injures them.

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.