Themistocles quotes
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“He who commands the sea has command of everything.”
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“I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.”
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“I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city.”
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“The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.”
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“I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to glory and greatness...whereto all kindreds of the earth will pilgrim.”
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“I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.”
-- ThemistoclesSource : "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Robert Andrews, p. 894, 1993.
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“May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.”
-- ThemistoclesSource : "Plutarch's Lives: Tr. from the Original Greek: with Notes, Critical and Historical, and a Life of Plutarch". Book by Plutarch, rtansl. by John Langhorne and William Langhorne, p. 225, 1850.
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“Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.”
Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.88, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.”
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“Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?”
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“The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.”
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“Command is often not what you do but the way you do it.”
Source : "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 184), 1985.
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“When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.”
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