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Selected Speeches (Oxford Worlds Classics)

Name: Selected Speeches (Oxford Worlds Classics)
ISBN: 0199593779

'Even if everyone else succumbs to slavery, we must still fight for our freedom.' Admired by many in the ancient world as the greatest of the classic Athenian orators, Demosthenes was inti

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“Our affairs have reached such a stage that our first concern must be to avoid disaster ourselves...[other speakers] submit to you the wrong subject for deliberation.”

— Demosthenes, amazon.com

Tagged: strategy

“And are you so unintelligent, men of Athens, as to hope that the same policy that has brought our state from success to failure will raise us from failure to success?”

— Demosthenes, amazon.com

Tagged: strategy