Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
DEMOSTHENESWe need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
More Demosthenes Quotes
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Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, “How well he spoke” but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, “Let us march.
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The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots – suspicion.
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It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man’s thought must always follow his employment.
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A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
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The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
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No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
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The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
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The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
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You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.
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