Demosthenes Quotes
"All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action."
- Demosthenes
(Related: Action, Speech)
"Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master."
- Demosthenes
(Related: War, Anxiety)
"Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law."
- Demosthenes
(Related: Enemy, Freedom, Law)
"Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states."
- Demosthenes
(Related: Security, states)
"I am a citizen of the world."
- Demosthenes
(Related: World)
"No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods."
- Demosthenes
(Related: Gods, Friends, Help, Man, Right)
"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true."
- Demosthenes
(Related: Man, Wishes)
"The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them."
- Demosthenes
(Related: People, Protection)
"As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish."
- Demosthenes
(Related: Men, Sound)
"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion."
- Demosthenes
(Related: Security, Suspicion)
"To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach."
- Demosthenes
(Related: Man)
"What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice."
- Demosthenes
(Related: Love, God, Truth, Justice)
"What we wish, that we readily believe."
- Demosthenes
"You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit."
- Demosthenes
(Related: Actions, Man, Spirit)
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."
- Demosthenes
(Related: Beginning)
"Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states."
- Demosthenes
(Related: states)