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

I request you, if I speak my mind, to be patient, and consider only, whether I speak the truth, and with a view to future amendment.

For I have been taught both by hearsay and experience, that most of your advantages have escaped you, from unwillingness to do your duty, not from ignorance.

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…

To call him perjured and treacherous, without showing what he has done, might justly be termed idle abuse.