Demosthenes: “For this reason he will show us no mercy, if he get us into his power: and therefore you must make up your minds, that…”

As for me, never before have I courted favor, by speaking what I am not convinced is for your good, and now I have spoken my whole mind frankly and unreservedly.

If a man keep what he gets, he is thankful to fortune; if he lose it by imprudence, he loses withal his memory of the obligation.

There is the insult too, and the disgrace of the thing, worse than any damage to right-thinking men.

But look to this, Athenians, that our envoys shall not only make speeches, but have some real proof that we have gone forth as becomes our country, and are engaged in action.