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I shall prove
without difficulty that he has no right to ask you to reverse that
opinion—not by using counters, for political measures are not to be
added up in that fashion, but by reminding you briefly of the several
transactions, and appealing to you who hear me as both the witnesses and the
auditors of my account. We owe it to that policy of mine which he denounces
that, instead of the Thebans joining Philip in an invasion of our country, as
everyone expected, they fought by our side and stopped him;
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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