Demosthenes: “Consider, Athenians, should there not be native captains, a native general of horse, your own commanders, that the force…”

I say, you must either desist from these practices, or blame none but yourselves for the wretched condition of your affairs.

Because our city is the only one where liberty is allowed to speak for the enemy, where a man taking a bribe may safely address the people, though they have been deprived of their possessions.

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.

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