[74]
Again; if
Aristo is acquitted, to whom is the State to look for compensation for the
defendant's illegal acts? And what about the men whose execution and
imprisonment he tries to procure, as he bustles to and fro in the court? How
will they recover their lives or escape from the sufferings they have already
endured? For this man, to whom the laws refuse a share in our common everyday
privileges, is the cause of intolerable wrongs to others by methods that are
neither correct nor constitutional nor convenient.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.