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And their conduct is natural; for men who have sold
themselves to a policy antagonistic to the interests of their country cannot
trouble themselves about laws and oaths; they are to them mere terms which they
employ to lead astray the citizens who come to the Assembly for diversion and
not for careful inquiry, and who forget that present inaction will some day
result in wild confusion.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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