Tuesday, August 18, 2026
Liberty
A.W. Pickard-Cambridge (1873-1952), Demosthenes and the Last Days of Greek Freedom, 384-322 B.C. (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1914), p. 489:
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The claim of Demosthenes to be ranked among the heroic men of the past rests above all on the constancy and sincerity with which he defended the noblest cause known to the Greeks — that of Hellenic liberty; and only those who have failed to recognise that most of what was best in the Greek, and, above all, in the Athenian character sprang from and was bound up with political liberty, can seriously censure his choice. If any cause was, to a Greek, worth fighting for to the death, that for which Demosthenes fought and died was pre-eminently so.
