Another from the Spartans:
[QUOTE=The Cambridge History of Warfare]
The Spartan King Agelsilaus once asked his allied Peloponnesian army to stand up by profession-potters, smiths, carpenters, builders, and all the others. At last only the minority of his Spartiates remained seated, those few scoffed, ‘how many more soldiers we send out to fight than you do.’ Plutarch records that the Spartans could boast: ‘Not by caring for the fields, but rather by caring for ourselves did we come to own those fields.’
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