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All that can be
said now is, that we have failed and that is the common lot of humanity, if God
so wills. But then, if Athens, after
claiming the primacy of the nations, had run away from her claims, she would
have been held guilty of betraying Greece to Philip. If, without striking a blow, she had
abandoned the cause for which our forefathers flinched from no peril, is there a
man who would not have spat in your face? In your face, Aeschines: not at
Athens, not at me!
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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