Demosthenes: “By a conduct honorable toward the Greeks, pious to the gods, brotherlike among themselves, they justly attained a high…”

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

Such is the truth, spoken with perfect freedom, purely from good-will and for the best: not a speech fraught with flattery and mischief and deceit, to earn money for the speaker, and to put the commonwealth into the hands of our enemies.

But I suppose, you inherit a reputation from your father and grandfather, which it were disgraceful in your own person to extinguish, whereas the ancestry of the state was ignoble and mean.

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