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Furthermore, it should
plainly appear that it does not offer an easy time to any wrongdoer. For if
anyone supposes that indulgent laws are the mark of popular government, let him
ask this further question: to whom are they to be indulgent? If he will look at
the matter rightly, he will find that the answer is, to persons who are going to
be tried, not to persons already convicted. For of the former we may say that it
is still uncertain whether they have been unjustly calumniated; but the latter
can no longer plead that they are not evil-doers.
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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