# Speech Against Philip of Macedon (351 B.C.) 1.20-21

Imperialisms, Ancient and Modern, Speech Against Philip of Macedon (351 B.C.), 1.20 to 1.21. Latin.

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[51] For my own part, I have never yet chosen to court your favor by saying anything that I was not quite convinced would be to your advantage; and today, keeping nothing back, I have given free utterance to my plain sentiments. Yet, certain as I am that it is to your interest to receive the best advice, I could have wished that I were equally certain that to offer such advice is also to the interest of the speaker; for then I should have felt much happier. But, as it is, in the uncertainty of what the result of my proposal may be for myself, yet in the conviction that it will be to your interest to adopt it, I have ventured to address you. Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail! (Demosthenes, First Philippic 1-13, 42-44, 49-51)

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