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Acting on suchprinciple, he has won every thing and keeps it, either by way ofconquest, or by friendly attachment and alliance; for all men will sidewith and respect those, whom they see prepared and willing to makeproper exertion. If you, Athenians, will adopt this principle now, though you did not before, and every man, where he can and ought to givehis service to the, state, be ready to give it without excuse, thewealthy to contribute, the able-bodied to enlist; in a word, plainly, ifyou wil...l become your own masters, and cease each expecting to do nothinghimself, while his neighbor does every thing for him, you shall thenwith heaven's permission recover your own, and get back what has beenfrittered away, and chastise Philip. Do not imagine, that his empire iseverlastingly secured to him as a god. There are who hate and fear andenvy him, Athenians, even among those that seem most friendly; and allfeelings that are in other men belong, we may assume, to hisconfederates. But now they are all cowed, having no refuge through yourtardiness and indolence, which I say you must abandon forthwith.
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