Eleftherios Venizelos Quotes

• Greece expects you not merely to die for her, for that is little, indeed; she expects you to conquer. That is why each one of you, even in dying, should be possessed by one thought alone - how to conserve your strength to the last so that those who survive may conquer. And you will conquer, I am more than sure of this.

  Eleftherios Venizelos

  Dying, May, Littles

  "Life of Venizelos, with a letter from His Excellency M. Venizelos" by S. M. Chester, London: Constable, (p. 162), 1921.

  13 Copy quote

• A party should be founded not merely on numbers, but on moral principles, without which it can neither accomplish useful work nor inspire confidence.

  Eleftherios Venizelos

  Party, Numbers, Inspire

  "Venizelos, Modern Statesmen Series" by H. A. Gibbons, Houghton Mifflin Company, (p. 17), 1920.

  12 Copy quote

• Neutrality is not politics.

  Eleftherios Venizelos

  Neutrality

  "Histoire diplomatique de la Grèce de 1821 à nos jours, tome V" by Édouard Driault, Michel Lhéritier, (p. 164), 1926.

  10 Copy quote

• One cannot kick against geography!

  Eleftherios Venizelos

  Geography, Kicks

  "The victory of Venizelos : a study of Greek politics, 1910-1918" by V. J. Seligman, (p. 31), 1920.

  10 Copy quote

• The European policy is invariably the maintenance of the status quo, and you will do nothing for the subject races unless we, by taking initiative, make you realize that helping us against the Turks is the lesser of the evils.

  Eleftherios Venizelos

  Race, Evil, Maintenance

  "Eminent Europeans; studies in continental reality" by E. S. Bagger, G.P. Putnam's Sons, (p. 67), 1922.

  11 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin