Macedonia Quotes

• Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks.

  Arrian

  Leader, Greek, Done

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• Such was the end of Philip (II, king of Macedonia) ...He had ruled 24 years. He is known to fame as one who with but the slenderest resources to support his claim to a throne won for himself the greatest empire among the Hellenes (Greeks), while the growth of his position was not due so much to his prowess in arms as to his adroitness and cordiality in diplomacy.

  Diodoro Sículo

  Kings, Years, Support

  "Histories" by Diodorus Siculus, 16.95.1-2,

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• Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.

  Alejandro Magno

  Army, Leader, Greek

  "Anabasis of Alexander" by Arrian of Nicomedia, translated by P. A. Brunt. Books I-IV,

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• La gestión de las relaciones étnicas y otras cuestiones por parte de Macedonia es alentadora.

  Emma Bonino

  Issues, Relation

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• There remain of Europe, first, Macedonia and the part of Thrace that are contiguous to it and extend as far as Byzantium; secondly, Greece; and thirdly, the Islands that are close by. Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece, yet now, since I am following the nature and shape of the place geographically, I have decided to classify it apart from the rest of Greece and to join it with that part of Thrace.

  Estrabón

  Islands, Byzantium, Europe

  "Geographica". Encyclopedia by Strabo, 7 BC.

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• How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the sake of the security of Greece? For who is not aware that Greece would have constantly stood in the greater danger, had we not been fenced by the Macedonians and the honorable ambition of their kings?

  Polibio

  Kings, Ambition, Fighting

  Polybius, William Roger Paton (1960). “Polybius: the histories”

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• And when the book of Daniel was showed to him (Alexander the Great) wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended.

  Josephus

  Book, Greek, Empires

  Flavius Josephus (1830). “The Works of Flavius Josephus...: With Three Dissertations, Concerning Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, James the Just, God's Command to Abraham, Etc. and Explanatory Notes and Observations”, p.235

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• I know of two tragic histories in the world - that of Ireland, and that of Macedonia. Both of them have been deprived and tormented

  Roger Casement

  Two, World, Tragic

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• The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures. Next to the Ottoman Government nothing can be more deplorable and blameworthy than jealousies between Greek and Slav and plans by the States already existing for appropriating other territory. Why not Macedonia for the Macedonians as well as Bulgaria for the Bulgarians and Serbia for the Serbians?

  William E. Gladstone

  Country, Government, Greek

  "Mr. Gladstone and The Balkan Confederation". "The Sunday Times" Newspaper, February 6, 1897.

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• La ciudad de New York, la incomparable, la brillante ciudad estrella de las ciudades, el cuadragésimo noveno estado, una ley en sí misma, la paradoja ciclópea, el infierno sin límites, la expresión suprema tanto de las miserias como de los esplendores de la civilización contemporánea, la Macedonia de Estados Unidos. Cumple la prueba más severa que puede aplicarse a la definición de una metrópolis: permanece despierta toda la noche. Pero también se convierte en una pequeña ciudad cuando llueve.

  John Gunther

  Estrellas, New York, Lluvia

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• Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in this campaign which I am about to conduct, let him not refuse his services to the state, but come with me into Macedonia. I will furnish him with his sea-passage, with a horse, a tent, and even travel-funds. If anyone is reluctant to do this and prefers the leisure of the city to the hardships of campaigning, let him not steer the ship from on shore.

  Livy

  Horse, Sea, Cities

  Book 44, chapter 22. Reported in "Livy" by Alfred C. Schlesinger, vol. 13, p. 161, 1951.

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• The fact that refugees traveled through six other countries, like former Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, France, Germany, Holland, is because they like our social benefits. They like our welfare state. They know which country to pick. They're not going to stay in Hungary or in Estonia. They come to Germany, to Holland. And people sense that those are not the real refugees. And our government has spent billions of euros on them, and the Dutch people know.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, Real, Government

  Fuente: www1.cbn.com

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• We know what our policy is regarding the territory of Israel, Kosovo, Bosnia, Macedonia and even Nagorno-Karabakh. What is our policy regarding the territory of the United States? No nation in history has ever been as willing to accommodate those who would dismember it as has the United States of America. Trying to get a straight pro-U. S. comment out of a U.S. elected official is like trying to nail a custard pie to the side of a barn.

  Barry Farber

  Israel, Pie, America

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• Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.

  Fatos Nano

  Love, Country, Block

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• Adolf Hitler es probablemente el último de los grandes aventureros-conquistadores en la tradición de Alejandro, César y Napoleón, y el Tercer Reich el último de los imperios que emprendieron el camino emprendido anteriormente por Francia, Roma y Macedonia. La invención repentina de la bomba de hidrógeno, de los misiles balísticos y de los cohetes capaces de alcanzar la Luna ha bajado el telón de esta fase de la historia.

  William L. Shirer

  Taken, Moon, Rome

  William L. Shirer (2011). "Auge y caída del Tercer Reich", p.12, RosettaBooks

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• I prayed the monsters would give up. Or that perhaps Philip of Macedonia would climb back to the terrace (do crocodiles climb?) and renew the fight.

  Rick Riordan

  Giving Up, Fighting, Monsters

  Rick Riordan (2010). "The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid, Hyperion.

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