Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
DEMOSTHENESBy persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
More Demosthenes Quotes
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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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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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We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.
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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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Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
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Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail!
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The fact speak for themselves.
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Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
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What we wish, that we readily believe.
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As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
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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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All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
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Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.
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One believes in what one wants to believe in.
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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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