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It would be a most scandalous state of things if, while these men, to whom you
were indebted for so many services, were not allowed to do anything contrary to
your established laws, this man, who has never done you a single good service,
but has committed a prodigious number of offences, should be found to have
received at your hands, so readily and so contrary to justice and expediency,
the right to transgress the laws. And why appeal to ancient history? Count up
the men of your own days and see if anyone has ever been found so shameless. A
careful scrutiny will not reveal a single instance.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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