Demosthenes: “Will ye not beware, I said, lest, seeking deliverance from war, you find a master?”

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.

To censure, I may be told, is easy for any man; to show what measures the case requires, is the part of a counselor.

It must then be our care, Athenians, that we are not more unkind to ourselves than circumstances have been; as it would be a foul, a most foul reproach, to have abandoned not only cities and places that once belonged to us, but also the…

If it be his principle, ever to do more than he has done, and yours, to apply yourselves vigorously to nothing, see what the end promises to be.