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What then do I recommend? Deprive both
general and men of all excuse by providing pay and by attaching to them citizen
soldiers as overseers, so to speak, of their conduct in the field; for at
present our system is a mockery. If anyone asked you, “Are you at
peace, Athenians?” you would reply, “Certainly not; we are
at war with Philip.”
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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