Demosthenes: “The present juncture, Athenians, all but proclaims aloud, that you must yourselves take these affairs in hand, if you…”

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.

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

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

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