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and to this very day
you have not been involved in war on those grounds. For no one would go to war
as readily for aggrandizement as for the defence of his own possessions; but
while all men fight desperately to keep what they are in danger of losing, it is
not so with aggrandizement men make it, indeed, their aim, but if prevented,
they do not feel that they have suffered any injustice from their opponents.
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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