Ancestor Quote by Alexander the Great

Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and]…

— Arrian

“Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been…

— Alexander the Great

“To the Greeks [the Macedonians] were uncouth, semi-civilized barbarians. The Macedonians for their part despised the Greeks as effete, wishy-washy Greeklings. Both regarded the…

— Nicholas Sekunda

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Macedonia was, is and will forever be Greek.

— Mikis Theodorakis

O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their…

— Cyrus the Great

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

— Nigel Farage

How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the…

— Polybius

We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.

— Winston Churchill

My father came to Britain in search of a better life. My aunts, uncles and cousins fled here in search of safety as Cyprus's…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

It's probably worth noting that although I'm ethnically Greek, my grandfather was actually born in Turkey and came through Greece on his way to…

— James G. Stavridis

“...discontented inhabitants who willingly admit a foreign power either through excessive ambition or through fear, as was the case with the Etolians, who admitted…

— Machiavelli Niccolo