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Nevertheless they will allege that both then and now they were
acting in your interests. Will you then accept their exploits as due to zeal in
your interests? Or will you indulgently tolerate the handiwork of their audacity
and wickedness? No, men of Athens;
you ought to abhor such men rather than liberate them. He who claims your
indulgence as having acted for the good of the commonwealth must be shown to
possess the spirit of the common wealth.
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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