"He exhorted them in these words: “You yourselves are fully aware of what I and my brothers and the house of my father have done for the laws and the sanctuary. You also know about the battles we have fought and the hardships we have endured. As a result, all of my brothers have perished for the sake of Israel, and I alone am left. Far be it from me, then, to give priority to my own life in any time of oppression, for I am not of any greater worth than my brothers. Rather, I will avenge my nation and the sanctuary and your wives and children, for all the nations have united to destroy us because of their hatred for us.”"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
1 Maccabees 13:3-6 NCB.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Simon_Thassi
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Simon Thassi
Simon Thassi (died 135) was the second son of Mattathias and the first prince of the Hasmonean dynasty. He reigned from 141 to 135 BCE.
3 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Simon Thassi →
Related Quotes
"Simon was allotted three thousand men for the march on Galilee, while eight thousand men were assigned to Judas for t…"
"And he saw that the people were trembling with fear, he went up to Jerusalem. Assembling the people, he exhorted them…"
"Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so…"
"I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his sp…"
"Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him th…"
"Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the f…"
"By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview c…"
"This great anti-Fascist body of men have assured me that they will fight side by side with the Indian peoples."
"The honour you have done me is really the honour to the cause of democracy and freedom which Spanish workers and peas…"
"I brought it to his [Hedgewar's] notice that the RSS remained a static organisation and that it did not develop into …"