(From Andocides: the Minor Orators)

ὅτι μὲν εἰρήνην ποιεῖσθαι δικαίαν ἄμεινόν ἐστιν ἢ πολεμεῖν, δοκεῖτέ μοι, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, πάντες γιγνώσκειν: 

ὅτι δὲ οἱ ῥήτορες τῷ μὲν ὀνόματι τῆς εἰρήνης συγχωροῦσι, 

τοῖς δ᾽ ἔργοις ἀφ᾽ ὧν ἂν ἡ εἰρήνη γένοιτο ἐναντιοῦνται, 

τοῦτο δὲ οὐ πάντες αἰσθάνεσθε. 

λέγουσι γὰρ ὡς ἔστι δεινότατον τῷ δήμῳ, γενομένης εἰρήνης, ἡ νῦν οὖσα πολιτεία μὴ καταλυθῇ.

That making civil peace is

Better than waging war—

this! O, citizens,

you all seem to know.

The politicians, though they speak of peace, agree in name only.

In action, they oppose the things that bring it to be.

They say it will be terrible

for the people,

if… peace is made—

Just to see our current state destroyed.