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Yes, and it is he who is the useful
citizen, not those who for a moment's popularity have made havoc of the chief
resources of the State. These men I am so far from envying or deeming them
worthy citizens of our city, that if a man should say to me, “Speak
for yourself, and tell us what good you have ever done the State,”
though I might speak, men of Athens,
of the equipment of war-galleys and of choruses, of money contributions and of
the ransom of captives, and of other instances of liberality, I would say not a
word of them,
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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