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For if you trust to mere
expeditions, you can never gain any of your essential objects. You must first
levy a force and provide for its maintenance, and appoint paymasters and clerks,
and arrange that there shall be the strictest watch kept over your expenditure,
and afterwards you must demand from your paymasters an account of their moneys,
and from the general an account of his campaign. If you do this, and if you are
really in earnest about it, you will either compel Philip to keep the peace
fairly and to abide within his own frontiers—and that would be the
greatest blessing of all—or you will fight him on equal terms.
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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