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Besides all this, if I must say
what I think is right, I would put it in this way. It is not right, Athenians,
to cite the laws of the Lacedaemonians or of the Thebans in order to undermine
the laws established here; it is not right that you should want to put a man to
death for transplanting to Athens
any of the institutions that have made those nations great, and yet lend a
willing ear to those who propose to destroy the institutions under which our
democracy has flourished.
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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