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The cause of all this change is that then
the people controlled and dispensed everything, and the rest were well content
to accept at their hand honor and authority and reward; but now, on the
contrary, the politicians hold the purse-strings and manage everything, while
the people are in the position of lackeys and hangers-on, and you are content to
accept whatever your masters dole out to you.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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