Demosthenes: “For even he has been exalted not so much by his own strength, as by our negligence.”

I am not ignorant, Athenians, that frequently, when any disappointment happens, you are angry, not with the parties in fault, but with the last speakers on the subject; yet never, with a view to self-protection, would I suppress what I…

For it is plain to the Olynthians, that now they are fighting, not for glory or a slice of territory, but to save their country from destruction and servitude.

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

Choose which ye think expedient; and put hands to the work, while it is yet time.