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My own advice, as I
said at the start, is to believe them when they say that we ought to abide by
the joint agreement, unless, when they insist on our abiding by the oaths, they
interpret them as not forbidding any act of injustice, or imagine that no one
will be sensible of the change from democracy to tyranny or of the overthrow of
a free constitution.
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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