Themistocles quotes

“He who commands the sea has command of everything.”
-- Themistocles

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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.”
-- Themistocles

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“I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city.”
-- Themistocles

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“The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.”
-- Themistocles

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“Strike, if you will, but listen.”
-- Themistocles

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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.”
-- Themistocles

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“I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.”
-- Themistocles

Source : "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.”
-- Themistocles

Source : "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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“What one can be, one must be!”

“When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was interested in learning more about the complicated conflict and decided I would lend some of my time and energy to do so.”

“I would need to see changes in the Iraq governance. Otherwise I don't think strikes are going to have any impact and could be very well counterproductive.”

“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

“I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.”

“In peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.”

“Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?”

“The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.”

“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.

“When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.”