Demosthenes: “For what time or season would you have better than the present?”

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.

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.

I say, you must either desist from these practices, or blame none but yourselves for the wretched condition of your affairs.

He is convinced, you will not submit to be slaves; if you were inclined, you would not know how, having been accustomed to command: you will be able, should occasion offer, to give him more trouble than any people in the world.