Demosthenes: “You need not pry into the future, but assure yourselves it will be disastrous, unless you attend to your duty, and are…”

To censure, I may be told, is easy for any man; to show what measures the case requires, is the part of a counselor.

For I have been taught both by hearsay and experience, that most of your advantages have escaped you, from unwillingness to do your duty, not from ignorance.

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.

That you, Athenians, may feel and understand both the folly of continually abandoning one thing after another, and the activity which forms part of Philip's habit and existence, which makes it impossible for him to rest content with his…