Demosthenes: “But now they are all cowed, having no refuge through your tardiness and indolence, which I say you must abandon…”

To censure, I may be told, is easy for any man; to show what measures the case requires, is the part of a counselor.

For I have been taught both by hearsay and experience, that most of your advantages have escaped you, from unwillingness to do your duty, not from ignorance.

He would never have commenced this war, had he imagined he must fight.

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.