"There has never been a war fought for purer motives than the war against Persia. Marathon and Salamis are still words that "send a ringing challenge down through the generations." Their victories still seem a miracle as they seemed to the men who won them. The mighty were put down from their seats and those of low degree exalted, and for fifty years and more Persia could do nothing to Greece. What followed was one of the most triumphant rebirths of the human spirit in all history, when the bitter differences that divide men were far in the background and freedom was in the air — freedom in the great sense, not only equality before the law, but freedom of thought and speech."
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Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way to Western Civilization (1930; 1942), p. 190
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