Greece

"Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas 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."

"From now on I will call our esteemed EU partner "the former Ottoman possession of Greece"."

"And the hairy he-goat [stands for] the king of Greece; and as for the great horn that was between its eyes, it [stands for] the first king. And that one having been broken, so that there were four that finally stood up instead of it, there are four kingdoms from [his] nation that will stand up, but not with his power."

"Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony."

"Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti Latio."

"Conquered Greece took captive her savage conqueror and brought her arts into rustic Latium."

"Horace, Book II, epistle i, lines 156–157"

"Fuck your parliament and your constitution. America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea. Greece is a flea. If these two fleas continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked good. We pay a lot of good American dollars to the Greeks, Mister Ambassador. If your Prime Minister gives me talk about democracy, parliament and constitution, he, his parliament and his constitution may not last long."

"Who governs this country?"

"Hellas has been transformed to an endless bedlam."

"The same, yet not the same — her face Has still that Grecian line ; The sculptured perfectness whose grace Has long been held divine."

"Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone—glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away—Is this the whole?"

"Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts and eloquence."

"The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is capable."

"The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time that they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind."

"It’s my hope and ambition that Aenos International Dark Sky Park will be the most important step of the new effort by the dark sky movement to preserve the dark skies of Greece for the generations to come."

"Greece belongs to the Greeks."

"Greece is rich but the Greeks are poor."

"“For Greece, damn it.”"

"From the sacred bones of the Hellenes arisen, and valiant again as you once were, hail! Oh hail, Liberty!"

"Hellas' destiny is to live, and She shall live."

"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 madden to crime?"

"Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great!"

"The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung. Where grew the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set."

"Such is the aspect of this shore; "Tis Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there."