I marvel, indeed, that none of you, Athenians, notices with concern and anger, that the beginning of this war was to chastise Philip, the end is to protect ourselves against his attacks.
From a speech criticizing Athenian strategic failures against Philip, on the reversal of war objectives.
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For the riches of a state I consider to be allies, confidence, good-will; of all which you are destitute.
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.
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.
Yea, among these men, some have risen rapidly from poverty to wealth, from meanness and obscurity to repute and honor, while you, on the contrary, have fallen from honor to obscurity, from wealth to indigence.
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