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Eleftherios Venizelos Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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