Demosthenes: “I say, you must either desist from these practices, or blame none but yourselves for the wretched condition of your…”

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 the struggle will be one for life and death.

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.

He is convinced, you will not submit to be slaves; if you were inclined, you would not know how, having been accustomed to command: you will be able, should occasion offer, to give him more trouble than any people in the world.