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So
you, if you hear of Philip in the Chersonese, vote an expedition there; if at Thermopylae, you vote one there; if
somewhere else, you still keep pace with him to and fro. You take your marching
orders from him; you have never framed any plan of campaign for yourselves,
never foreseen any event, until you learn that something has happened or is
happening. All this was once perhaps possible; now things have come to a crisis,
so that it is no longer in your power.
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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