Demosthenes: “But ever since your hirelings have served by themselves, they have been vanquishing your friends and allies, while your…”

True, when a confederacy subsists by good-will, and all parties to the war have a common interest, men are willing to co-operate and bear hardships and persevere.

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

He has risen by conciliating and cajoling the weakness of every people in turn who knew him not.

As, therefore, by such means he rose, when every people imagined he would advance their interest, so ought he by the same means to be pulled down again, when the selfish aim of his whole policy is exposed.