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If it was not
right, if Greece was to present the
spectacle, as the phrase goes, of the looting of Mysia,1 while Athenians still lived and breathed,
then I am a busybody, because I spoke of those matters, and Athens, too, is a busybody because she
listened to me; and let all her misdeeds and blunders be charged to my account!
But if it was right that some one should intervene, on whom did the duty fall,
if not on the Athenian democracy? That then was my policy. I saw a man enslaving
all mankind, and I stood in his way. I never ceased warning you and admonishing
you to surrender nothing.
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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