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And are
you so unintelligent, men of Athens,
as to hope that the same policy that has brought our state from success to
failure will raise us from failure to success? Surely that is neither reasonable
nor natural; for in all things it is much easier to keep than to gain. But, in
the present instance, of what was once ours the war has left us nothing to keep
and everything to gain. This, then, is our own task today.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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