Demosthenes: “The Lacedaemonians, who are enemies of Thebes, he overthrows; the Phocians, whom he himself before destroyed, will he…”

To this point are the affairs of Athens brought, that the more fully and clearly one convicts Philip of violating the peace with you, and plotting against the whole of Greece, the more difficult it becomes to advise you how to act.

Impossible is it,--impossible, Athenians,--to acquire a solid power by injustice and perjury and falsehood.

And surely we must suppose, that Paeonians and Illyrians, and all such people, would rather be free and independent than under subjection; for they are unused to obedience, and the man is a tyrant.

On many occasions, men of Athens, one may see the kindness of the gods to this country manifested, but most signally, I think, on the present.