“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

[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!"

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