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1 I think it your duty, men of Athens, when deliberating about such important matters to allow freedom of
speech to every one of your counsellors. For my own part, I have never at any time
considered it difficult to make you understand what proposals are best—for, to
put it simply, I think you all have decided that,—but only difficult to persuade
you to act on these proposals. For when a measure has been approved and confirmed by a
vote, it is then as far from being put into effect as before it was approved.
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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