Elefterios Wenizelos cytaty

Elefterios Wenizelos, gr. Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος – grecki polityk, prawnik, ośmiokrotny premier.

Urodził się w Murnies koło miasta Chania na Krecie. Zaistniał na scenie politycznej podczas kreteńskiego powstania przeciwko Imperium Osmańskiemu w 1897, opowiadając się za enosis, czyli za utworzeniem unii z Grecją. W 1905 był przywódcą kolejnego powstania na Krecie, które wybuchło w jego rodzinnej wiosce Theriso. Powstanie doprowadziło do odwołania namiestnika tureckiego z wyspy. Po uzyskaniu przez Kretę autonomii Wenizelos współtworzył jej konstytucję. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. Sierpień 1864 – 18. Marzec 1936
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“All my life with all my heart I wanted the union of Crete and Greece. I wanted it to be sustained by profound mutual affection. I swear that was my only desire.... Greece will never see me again.”

Źródło: [Farewell to Venizelos, Time magazine, Monday, Mar. 25, 1935, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,748601-1,00.html] ; Venizelos at the final years of his life.

“I do not wish to depreciate his great gifts and attainments in a country which unfortunately, if I may say so without offense, is suffering from a temporary lack of leading men.”

Źródło: Victory of Venizelos, 1920, p. 165; In discussing the responsibility of Zaimes, Venizelos himself remarked in the Greek Chamber.

“Neutrality is not politics.”

Eleftherios Venizelos in:. Histoire diplomatique de la Grèce de 1821 à nos jours. tome V, Edouard Driault et Michel Lheritier, éd. PUF, 1926, p. 164; Venizelos about the decision of Consantine I to keep Greece neutral during WWI

“One cannot kick against geography!”

Źródło: Victory of Venizelos, 1920, p. 31 ; Part of Venizelos' arguments with king Constantine why Greece should join with the Allies in the World War I.

“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.”

Venizelos speaking to Greek sailors at the beginning of the First Balkan War.
Źródło: [Chester, S. M., Life of Venizelos, with a letter from His Excellency M. Venizelos, Constable, 1921, London, http://www.archive.org/download/lifeofvenizelosw00chesuoft/lifeofvenizelosw00chesuoft.pdf], p. 162

“Of course the King is mistaken. But is natural that he should be frighten of taking the plunge. We have lost a great opportunity by not intervening at once. But later the King may change his mind, and it may be not too late.”

Źródło: Victory of Venizelos, 1920, p. 176 ; After one of the many attempts of Venizelos to persuade King Constantine, that Greece should join the Allies in the World War I.

“I had to decide [he said later] whether I would be a lawyer by profession and a revolutionary at intervals, or a revolutionary by profession and a lawyer at intervals.”

[Bagger, E. S., Eminent Europeans; studies in continental reality, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922, http://www.archive.org/download/eminenteuropeans00bagg/eminenteuropeans00bagg.pdf], p. 61

“England in all her wars has always gained one battle - the last!”

The World Crisis, The Aftermath : Chapter XVIII (Greek Tragedy), Churchill, Butterworth (1929), p. 381.

“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.”

[Bagger, E. S., Eminent Europeans; studies in continental reality, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922, http://www.archive.org/download/eminenteuropeans00bagg/eminenteuropeans00bagg.pdf], p. 67 and Gibbons, 1920, p. 27
Venizelos' answer to the question "Why don't you trust us implicitly?", made by British naval officer during the Cretan revolt in 1897. After the answer the Englishman replied "Damn it, the beggar is right!" and continued, "and I hope we shan't have to shoot him!"

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

Źródło: [Gibbons, H. A., Venizelos, Modern Statesmen Series, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920, http://books.google.com/books?id=DVMlZtkx5bwC], p. 17

“I shall fight them!”

Źródło: Victory of Venizelos, 1920, p. 178 ; In reply to the question, "What if you find German troops barring the way?" from the pro-German Greek MP Theotokis in the House. Later, Venizelos was dismissed from office.

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