We manage our state in a worse manner and with more disorder than those who are just founding their cities

Although we ought to be an example to all the world of good and orderly government, we manage our state in a worse manner and with more disorder than those who are just founding their cities.  Isocrates.  On The Peace.  Speech 8.  Section 49.

Image:  Detail from Christian Dirce, 1897, by Henryk Siemiradzki.