Demosthenes: “If so, we must be slaves; for nothing else remains.”

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.

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

Yea, among these men, some have risen rapidly from poverty to wealth, from meanness and obscurity to repute and honor, while you, on the contrary, have fallen from honor to obscurity, from wealth to indigence.

For this reason he will show us no mercy, if he get us into his power: and therefore you must make up your minds, that the struggle will be one for life and death.