Sparta Quotations

We are on the path toward becoming the Sparta of the 21st century, armed to the teeth and without the capacity to care for our own people.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Sparta, made war inevitable.

A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can."