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Alexander's letter to Persian king Darius in response to a truce plea:

" ...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..."

Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander II, 14, 4 (Loeb, P. A. Brunt) - Arrianos II (Anabasis) Historian, 95-175 AD


ALEXANDER OF MAKEDON I:

Had I not greatly at heart the common welfare of Greece, I should not have come to tell you; but I am myself a Greek by descent, and I would not willingly see Greece exchange freedom for slavery.

Herodotus Book IX ,45,(Kalliopi

"Untill now we knew that Greeks fight like heroes.From now on we can say that heroes fight like Greeks"
                                           Winston Churchill(prime minister of UK)1947