Besides these important considerations, he is assured that, though he became master of every thing else, nothing can be safe for him while you are under popular government: should any reverse ever befall him, (and many may happen to a man,) all who are now under constraint will come for refuge to you.
Demosthenes warns the Athenians about Philip's strategic understanding of their popular government as a threat to his dominion.
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