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“But,” says an objector,
“if our foreign policy has failed, there is great improvement in
domestic affairs.” And to what can you point in proof? To the walls we
are whitewashing, the streets we are paving, the water-works, and the
balderdash? Look rather at the men whose statesmanship has produced these
results; some of them were poor and now are rich, some were obscure and now are
eminent, some have reared private houses more stately than our public buildings,
while the lower the fortunes of the city have sunk, the higher have their
fortunes soared.
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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