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These are all
old-established laws, gentlemen of the jury; they have been repeatedly tested
and found advantageous to you, and no man ever denied that they were
well-conceived. Naturally; for there is nothing offensive or violent or
oligarchical in their provisions; they order business to be done in a courteous,
democratic spirit.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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