The public man who comes to the platform ought to come prepared

The public man who comes to the platform ought to come prepared, not merely in words, but, before all else, in life. Aeschines. Against Timarchus. Speech 1. Section 30.

Image: Caractacus at the Tribunal of Claudius at Rome, engraving by Andrew Birrell of a painting by Henry Fuseli, 1792. Courtesy of the Library of Congress and Wikimedia Commons.