Reflect upon the glory and the greatness of the deeds wrought by our country and our ancestors, review them in your minds and consider what kind of man was he, what was his birth and what the character of his education, who expelled the tyrants, brought the people into their own, and established our democratic state...for you will find if you review the career of each of these, that it was not those who lived unscrupulously or negligently nor those who did not stand out from the multitude who accomplished these things, but that it was men who were superior and pre-eminent, not only in birth and reputation, but in wisdom and eloquence, who have been the authors of all our blessings. Isocrates. Antidosis. Speech 15. Section 306.308.
Image: Battle of Salamis by Wilhelm von Kaulbach, 1868, in Munich, Germany courtesy of Wikimedia, Commons.
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