[179]
—Now if you, sir, had
claimed our entire confidence in all your public business, your dishonesty would
not have been equally manifest; but, seeing that in the matter of the taxes you
laid down the just principle that the City must trust, not you, but her own
servants, and then, when you took up another job, and were tampering with the
consecrated plate, some of it dedicated before we were born, you forgot to
provide the precaution that was taken at your own instance in respect of the
tax-collection, is it not perfectly clear what you were aiming at? Of course it
is.
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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