Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Eleftherios Venizelos

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Greek politician Eleftherios Venizelos.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Eleftherios Venizelos

Eleftherios Kyriakou Venizelos was a Greek statesman and a prominent leader of the Greek national liberation movement. He is noted for his contribution to the expansion of Greece and promotion of liberal-democratic policies. As leader of the Liberal Party, he was elected eight times as Prime Minister of Greece, serving from 1910 to 1920 and from 1928 to 1933. Venizelos had such profound influence on the internal and external affairs of Greece that he is credited with being "The Maker of Modern Greece", and is still widely known as the "Ethnarch".

A party should be founded not merely on numbers, but on moral principles, without which it can neither accomplish useful work nor inspire confidence.
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.
One cannot kick against geography! — © Eleftherios Venizelos
One cannot kick against geography!
Neutrality is not politics.
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.
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