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But for what is he responsible? For discerning the trend of events at the
outset, for forecasting results, for warning others. That I have always done.
Further, he ought to reduce to a minimum those delays and hesitations, those
fits of ignorance and quarrelsomeness, which are the natural and inevitable
failings of all free states, and on the other hand to promote unanimity and
friendliness, and whatever impels a man to do his duty. All that also I have
made my business: and herein no man can find any delinquency on my part.
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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