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For that it was an encroachment
little by little and was meant to accustom us to suffering such intrusions into
our harbors, is plain from the following consideration. For the mere fact that
the man who sailed the ship in, and whom you ought to have put out of existence
at once, galley and all, asked permission to build small boats in our
harbor—does it not make it perfectly plain that their scheme was not
so much to enter the harbor as to be inside it from the first? And if we
tolerate small craft, a little later it will be war-galleys as well; and if at
first we sanction a few, there will soon be many.
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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