Yet you, Athenians, with larger means than any people--ships, infantry, cavalry, and revenue--have never up to this day made proper use of any of them; and your war with Philip differs in no respect from the boxing of barbarians.
In a speech criticizing Athenian military strategy against Philip, on the misuse of national resources.
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If a man keep what he gets, he is thankful to fortune; if he lose it by imprudence, he loses withal his memory of the obligation.
You see to what wretched plight we are reduced by some men haranguing for popularity.
To call him perjured and treacherous, without showing what he has done, might justly be termed idle abuse.
As, therefore, by such means he rose, when every people imagined he would advance their interest, so ought he by the same means to be pulled down again, when the selfish aim of his whole policy is exposed.
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