You Athenians, posessing unsurpassed resources - fleet, infantry, cavalry, renvue - have never to this very day employed them aright, and yet you carry on war with Phillip exactly as a barbarian boxes. The barbarian when struck, always clutches the place; hit him on the other side and there go his hands. He neither knows nor cares how to parry a blow or to watch his adversary.

Demosthenes (c. 384-322 BC) First Phillipic ch 40