The 300 Spartans Quotes

The 300 Spartans is a television program that appeared on TV in 1970 . The 300 Spartans ended its run in 1970.

It features Rudolph Maté as producer, Manos Hadjidakis in charge of musical score, and Geoffrey Unsworth as head of cinematography.

The 300 Spartans is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The 300 Spartans is 114 min long. The 300 Spartans is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The 300 Spartans Quotes

• (Narrator) "Across the hush of 24 centuries, this is the story of a turning point in history, of a blazing day when 300 Greek warriors fought here to hold with their lives their freedom and ours."

• (Unnamed) "yesterday, we only probed your positions. When we attack today, our arrows will blot out the sun."
• (Unnamed) "Good; then we will fight in the shade."
• (Unnamed) "Leonidas; you cannot win this fight."
• (Unnamed) "Every day we stand is another day for Greece."
• (Unnamed) "Leonidas, wait. Xerxes says that if you and your men lay down your arms, he will allow you to leave peaceably."
• (Unnamed) "Come and take them."

• (Unnamed) "Why were you not in council?"
• (Unnamed) "Because I'm not a good liar. I don't want to frighten them."
• (Unnamed) "Then the army is as enormous as they say?"
• (Unnamed) "Leonidas, it is bigger than anything you can imagine. For six days, I watched them pass. Six days. I ran out of numbers and still more of them came. They're drinking the rivers dry. And at night there are more of their campfires than there are stars in the sky."
• (Unnamed) "Good. When I was a boy, I always wanted to reach the stars with my spear."

• (Unnamed) "The council must act quickly"
• (Unnamed) "Why?"
• (Unnamed) "In order that we Spartans may reach the first line of defense in time."
• (Unnamed) "And where might that be?"
• (Unnamed) "The Pass of Thermopylae."
• (Unnamed) "Thermopylae, of course. That's the pass that protects Athens."
• (Unnamed) "No. It's the pass that protects GREECE. Mere cities don't matter now. It is Greece that counts. Only by being united can we hope to avoid slavery. Now, I am no politician, but I will plead this cause with you until the moon wanes and the night brings forth a new day."

• (Narrator) ""Oh, Stranger, tell the Spartans that we lie here obedient to their word." This last message of the fallen heroes rallied Greece to victory, first at Salamis, as predicted, and then at Plataea. But it was more than a victory for Greece. It was a stirring example to free people throughout the world of what a few brave men can accomplish once they refuse to submit to tyranny."

• (Unnamed) "A Spartan king cannot act without the authority of his people. But I know my people, and I know they will fight."
• (Unnamed) "Will they lead all others?"
• (Unnamed) "Sparta will fight, whether others will follow or not."

• (Unnamed) "Who can understand the way of the gods? They create lovely girls and then turn them into wives."

• (Unnamed) "It was my father's dream. One world, one master. But to Marathon ten years ago he sent a mere wave. I am leading an ocean."

• (Unnamed) "The whole of Asia is descending upon us. Many times more men than there are Greeks. These men are fierce, savage, bloodthirsty, merciless. But that is not the reason why we should fear them. That is not the source of their power. Their power lies in their unity. Unity. Remember that one terrible word which will surely destroy Greece, unless we counter it with a unity of our own. A unity of free men fighting together resisting this united tide of tyranny."

• (Unnamed) "Spartans. We have reached Thermopylae. The orders are: From this wall, we do not retreat."

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