"If it is truth that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought"
-Helen Keller
"The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks"
- Johann Joachim Wickelmann
"We have to admit that the whole islam, expect the religion, was Greek. Betrayal against the Greeks by the islamic Nations, equals betrayal against their own nature"
-Ibn Khaldun
"All free people are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek Nation which is defending itself so valiantly"
- Franklin Roosevelt
"We are children of the Greeks"
- Frederick der I König von Preußen
"Our western civilization was born in Hellas, and in its origin as well as in its future development, was always Hellenic and never the result of contributions by any other regions or Nations. This is why it is not enough for us to know Hellenic linguistic terms only, these are often forgotten. The Romans used to say that Hellas was the mother of all knowledge, and this truism has not changed since then "
-Federico Krutwig Sagredo
"I wish to the Germans from hellenizing ghosts to become Greeks."
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"The nation of the Greeks has undeniably, the hegemony of the civilization of mankind"
-Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff