Demosthenes: “You each succeed better in what you are busy and earnest about; Philip in actions, you in words.”

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.

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

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

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.