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When we got our weapons, first we said for [Christian] Faith and then for the Nation.

— Theodoros Kolokotronis Kolokotronis's Memoirs (2013)

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Greeks, God has signed our Liberty and will not go back on his promise.

Stathis Paraskevopoulos (2008)

Greeks! today we are born and today we shall die for the salvation of our Homeland.

Kolokotronis's Memoirs (2013)

The French Revolution opened the eyes of the world.

49 years I fight for the Fatherland.

Kolokotronis's Memoirs (2013)

It was not until our rising that all the Greeks were brought into communication. There were men who knew of no place beyond a mile of their own locality.

Theodoros Kolokotronis' memoirs (1846)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

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Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

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I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

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Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

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