Demosthenes: “And it seems, men of Athens, as if some god, ashamed for us at our proceedings, has put this activity into Philip.”

Then are you not ashamed, that the very damage which you would suffer, if he had the power, you dare not seize the moment to inflict on him?

For, had they undertaken the war at your instance, they might have been slippery allies, with minds but half resolved perhaps: but since they hate him on a quarrel of their own, their enmity is like to endure on account of their fears and…

I request you, if I speak my mind, to be patient, and consider only, whether I speak the truth, and with a view to future amendment.

It must then be our care, Athenians, that we are not more unkind to ourselves than circumstances have been; as it would be a foul, a most foul reproach, to have abandoned not only cities and places that once belonged to us, but also the…