Demosthenes: “To show and convince you, Athenians, that nothing, if you take precaution, is to be feared, nothing, if you are…”

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

You can not surely allege, that Aristodemus ought to be of importance at Athens, and Athens to be of no account among the Greeks.

How is it equitable, that certain of these men, returned from prison, should not know themselves, while the state, that once protected all Greece and held the foremost place, is sunk in ignominy and humiliation?

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