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==Legacy== It has been said of Demades that he was a master improviser. This may explain why practically none of his works have fully survived and only scattered fragments have been preserved. A fragment of a [[Speech (public address)|speech]], bearing his name, in which he defends his conduct, is to be found in [[Karl Otfried Müller|C Müller]]'s ''Oratores Attici'', ii. 438, but its genuineness is considered to be doubtful. The saying that "[[Draco (lawgiver)|Draco]]'s laws were written with blood, not with ink" is attributed to Demades. He is also alleged <ref>Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. VI. (published 1927). Macedon, 401–301 B.C., Ch. 6</ref> to have called the state largesse distributed by the [[Theorica|Theoric Fund]] the "cement of democracy".
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