Demosthenes: “I say, you must either desist from these practices, or blame none but yourselves for the wretched condition of your…”

I trust only, that what is most for the common benefit will prevail.

For, had they undertaken the war at your instance, they might have been slippery allies, with minds but half resolved perhaps: but since they hate him on a quarrel of their own, their enmity is like to endure on account of their fears and…

Impossible is it,--impossible, Athenians,--to acquire a solid power by injustice and perjury and falsehood.

To this point are the affairs of Athens brought, that the more fully and clearly one convicts Philip of violating the peace with you, and plotting against the whole of Greece, the more difficult it becomes to advise you how to act.