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For his sake, even if we had been like this fellow
Theocrines, you would with good right have preserved us; to say nothing of our
being better than he and of our pleading a cause which is just.We will not burden you by constantly repeating these
things, for the defendant has brought us into such plight that, as I said at the
outset, we have no hope of sharing in that freedom of speech which is granted
even to aliens.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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