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That then, as I
said, was the opportunity for any man who cared for Athens or for honest discussion. But I will
make a large concession. If even now any man can point to a better way, nay, if
any policy whatever, save mine, was even praticable, I plead guilty. If anyone
has now discerned any course which might have been taken profitably then, I
admit that I ought not to have missed it. But if there is none, if there never
was any, if to this very day no one is able to name any, what was a statesman to
do? Surely to choose the best policy among those that were visible and feasible.
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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