Ambition Quote by Polybius

“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

“The army that I wish to raise from the wealth that we’ve acquired is to fight the Macedonian intrusions, as well as to create…

— Ashwin Sanghi

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

— Arrian

The Greek nation has to be respected. I am not in the camp of those who openly want to humiliate Greece.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

“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

For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage…

— Adolf Hitler

“The Greek army refused to move an inch forward against the nations whose very name, according to Alexander, struck his soldiers with terror.”

— Dr Jayaswal

Remember all those references to Macedonia as the oasis of peace in the Balkans. You only really appreciate it when you have lost it.

— Boris Trajkovski

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

— Winston Churchill

Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all…

— Alexander the Great

“We honor the Greeks because in their art, literature, philosophy and civic history we discern the early stirrings of our own ideals—rationalism, humanism, democracy—which…

— Caroline Alexander

Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians.

— Robin Lane Fox