Themistocles Quotes
- He who commands the sea has command of everything.
- I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.
- The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
- I cannot fiddle, but I can make a great state from a little city.
- 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…
- I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.