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For those who think that Greece today is of no importance, allow me to say that they could not had been more wrong. Modern, just like ancient Greece, has unique importance for everyone who is trying to find himself.
When the birthplace of the finest civilization the world ever experienced, the country to which we owe what makes life superior and more beautiful, faces such an attack, the place of all real people is by her side.
Greece gave the example that each one of us must follow, until the enemies of freedom, wherever in the world they may be, suffer their just punishment.
[A]ll free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation. ...which is defending itself so valiantly. [1]
Without Greek studies there is no education.
I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.
If in the library of your house you do not have works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
It's a shame to be called "educated" for those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.
Though Greece was conquered, she defeated the conqueror and imported the arts in the uncivilised Latium.
If there had not been the virtue and courage of the Greeks, we do not know what the outcome of World War II would had been.
First Greece taught us that free men can be brave, and that no defeat is meant to last forever. This small nation proved to be worthy of its history.
Our country, in which virtue is especially honoured, watches with admiration the struggle of the Greeks in Albania. We are so much touched, that, by letting aside every other feeling, we shout: LONG LIVE HELLAS!.
The Russian people will always be grateful to the Greeks for delaying the German army long enough for winter to set in, thereby giving us the precious time we needed to prepare. We will never forget. [2]
Historical justice forces me to admit that among all the enemies who stand against us, the Greek soldier above all, fought with the most courage. He surrendered himself only when the continuation of resistance was not possible any longer, and when he had no reason not to... However, he fought so bravely, that even his enemies can not deny their respect for him... Thus, the Greek prisoners of war were released immediately, having in mind the heroic stance of these soldiers. [3]
I forbid the Press to underestimate the Greeks, to defame them... The Führer admires the bravery of Greeks. [4]
The brave struggle of the people of this relatively small nation, for the right to live without interventions by dictatoric states, calls forth the respect and admiration of all the nations who love freedom.
Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but that heroes fight like Greeks. [5]
In the name of the captured yet still alive French people, France wants to send her greetings to the Greek people who are fighting for their freedom. The 25th of March, 1941 finds Greece in the peak of their heroic struggle and in the top of their glory. Since the battle of Salamis Greece had not achieved the greatness and the glory which today holds.
If the sharp-sightedness of the Greeks had kept pace with their intelligence, then maybe even the Industrial Revolution could had begun one thousand years before Columbus. And so, in our era, we would not just try to visit the Moon, but we would already had arrived on other close planets.
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentleman. [6]
Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle
Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime,
Where the rage of the vulture,
the love of the turtle,
Now melt into sorrow,
now madded to crime?
To Greece we give our shining blades.
How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.
Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
What a city we have given over to plunder and destruction.
Greece is the mother of science and the source of knowledge.
I would prefer to be a Greek, rather than a heir apparent of a throne.
Greece was the first of civilized nations that presented an example of what man should be.