Demosthenes: “He would never have commenced this war, had he imagined he must fight.”

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.

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.

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

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