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

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

Such is the truth, spoken with perfect freedom, purely from good-will and for the best: not a speech fraught with flattery and mischief and deceit, to earn money for the speaker, and to put the commonwealth into the hands of our enemies.

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.

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