Demosthenes: “I trust only, that what is most for the common benefit will prevail.”

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.

He is convinced, you will not submit to be slaves; if you were inclined, you would not know how, having been accustomed to command: you will be able, should occasion offer, to give him more trouble than any people in the world.

For the riches of a state I consider to be allies, confidence, good-will; of all which you are destitute.

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