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He invented the method which he has actually employed, that
of overthrowing old laws by a new one, in the hope that his iniquities might be
described as preservative. It is true that the city is preserved by laws; and
the thing he introduced, though widely different from other laws, certainly was
a law. He saw that the beneficent associations of that name were bound to win
your approval; and he did not choose to see that in its actual effect it would
be found very different.
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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