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Then do not
look about for a scapegoat for Philip's sins, someone whom you can throw for his
hirelings to rend limb from limb. Do not vote for war and then fall to disputing
among yourselves whether you ought or ought not to have done so, but imitate his
methods of warfare, supplying those who are now resisting him with money and
whatever else they need, and raising a war-fund yourselves, Athenians, and
providing an army, swift-sailing galleys, horses, cavalry-transports, and
everything that war requires.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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