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But, it may be objected, it
is open to anyone to indict the law, as I have done on this occasion. Well, even
in that event the State is outwitted if a man gets the prosecutor to stand
aside. What, then, is the only honest and trustworthy safeguard of the law? You,
the common people. It is beyond the power of mortal man to take away from you
the right to determine and to approve the best policy. No man, by getting you to
stand aside, or by bribing you, can ever induce you to substitute a bad law for
a good one.
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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