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So then, if the wealthy would accept this principle,
I think they would be doing not only what is fair, but also what is expedient;
for to deprive one citizen of necessaries is to make many of them unite in
disaffection towards the government. I would also counsel the poorer classes to
abolish the grievance which makes the propertied class discontented with the
system, and gives them just cause for assailing it.
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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