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Bear all this in mind and
memory so long as you sit in that box. Dismiss all the fallacious reasons they
will allege; do not allow them to be uttered. Tell them to show you the clause
in which he has proposed a trial, or the clause that punishes a man duly
convicted of murder. If he had provided for the due punishment of a man tried
and found guilty elsewhere, or if he had himself proposed a trial to determine
whether homicide has been committed or not, and if so whether justifiably or
not, he would have done no wrong.
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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