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For war-galleys, men
in abundance, money and material without stint, everything by which one might
gauge the strength of our cities, these we as a body possess today in number and
quantity far beyond the Greeks of former times. But all our resources are
rendered useless, powerless, worthless by these traffickers.
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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