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For
if you care to inquire why a man would rather live under democracy than under
oligarchy, you will find that the most obvious reason is that under democracy
things are done more considerately. I will not insist that the conduct of these
men was more outrageous and intolerable than under any oligarchy, no matter
where. But take our own city: at what time was the greatest severity practised
here? I am sure you will all reply, in the days of the Thirty Tyrants.
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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