Demosthenes: “The speeches, I find, are about punishing Philip; but our condition is come to this, that we must mind we are not first…”

As a house, a ship, or the like, ought to have the lower parts firmest, so in human conduct, I ween, the principle and foundation should be just and true.

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.

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

Choose which ye think expedient; and put hands to the work, while it is yet time.