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Yet if he were asked whether the taxes are due from our
property or from our persons, he would admit, if he cared to speak the truth,
that they are due from our property; it is from property that our contributions
come. Then why did you drop the sequestration and scheduling of lands and
houses, and proceed to imprison and insult Athenian citizens and the unfortunate
resident aliens, whom you have treated with more insolence than your own slaves?
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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