[76]
Let me sum up before I
leave the platform. I say that we must pay our contributions and keep together
the force now in the field, rectifying whatever seems to be amiss, but not
disbanding the whole for any adverse criticism. We must send ambassadors in
every direction to instruct, to exhort, to act. While doing all this, we must
also punish those politicians who take bribes, and we must hate them wherever
found, in order that those who prove their own virtue and honesty may find that
their advice has been beneficial to themselves as well as to the citizens at
large.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.