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I suppose that no man in his senses would do such a thing;
and you, sir, were guilty when you tried to annul those other provisions. For if
he thought it a fair thing to do, his proper course was to introduce a law
governing future transactions; not to lump together all offences, past and
future, proven and unproven, and then register an indiscriminate judgement upon
all together. Surely it is outrageous that men who have already been convicted
of offences against the common weal should be deemed worthy of the same judicial
treatment as men of whom it is not yet known whether they will ever do anything
that deserves prosecution?
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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