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Help them, if you will, guard them from harm [supply the
troops already there with all that they require], but let your
deliberations embrace all the Greek states and the great danger that besets
them. But I wish to tell you the grounds for my alarm about our condition, so
that if my reasoning is sound, you may adopt it as your own and take forethought
for yourselves, even if you refuse to take it for the others also; but if I seem
to you a driveler and a dotard, neither now nor at any other time pay any heed
to me as if I were in my senses.
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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