This thread is dedicated to memorable quotes regarding the Macedonians throughout the ages.




One of my favourites and a good summary of the Macedonian mentality:

The Macedonians are by nature secretive on account of the struggling existence they have led, but it is somewhat extraordinary that in the long run they never miss carrying out their veangance
The Times, 01-04-1924.

Amen to that - This is a basic characterstic of myself and most Macedonians I know.

I am going to quote Delchev as his statement appears in my signature. I have never read a statement which can be applicable to so many eras of human existance.

"I understand the world solely as a field for competition among nations"

That is a good quote and sums us up, we're very secretive.

TIME, January 05, 1925

Long ago, in the days of Philip of Macedon, when whole armies hurled themselves against the dread Macedonian phalanx, Macedonia was a great and independent country. Today, Macedonia is merely a geographical expression; its territories are divided principally between Yugoslavia and Greece. If the country is nonexistent, the people are not. They have managed, directly or indirectly, to make more Balkan blood flow in the past 20 years than have any other people.

From the same article, when asked about why he had assasinated Schankev, the VMRO member Dimitri Stefanov said:

I am a Macedonian Nationalist and I love my mother country intensely. It was only to serve her that I executed this renegade. I am glad I was chosen to sacrifice myself.

Mine is not a quote, but a speech.

Everytime I read it, I get goosebumps.

THE PROCLAMATION OF THE "MACEDONIA TO THE MACEDONlANS" SOCIETY

15th April 1891

To the Macedonian peoples!

Our homeland of Macedonia was once one of the most glorious countries. The Macedonian people laid the first foundations of the art of war. Alexander the Great with his victorious phalanxes spread Aristotle's enlightenment into the Asian continent and thus civilized humanity. Yet our homeland so glorious in the past is now in danger of being dismembered and even obliterated, for we, the Macedonians have neglected our nationality, and the other nations are demanding our country as theirs, seeking to subject our great nation which in the past shone so brightly in her independence.

True Macedonians!

Our homeland has become an orphan. Her victorious banner, in front of which the whole world once trembled, today exists no more as a banner of a separate nation. The name of Macedonia is today written on the maps as some memory, and her victorious graves lie in the great graveyards of oblivion, thanks to the pernicious intrigues of those who have been cruising through our land for several years imbuing our people with discord and open hatred. These bodies are gravediggers of our once glorious Macedonia. They work on her being dismembered and prepare the ground by local disputes concerning the
penetration of foreign armies into our homeland. These are critical days for the existence of Macedonia. The question of her life or death is being decided. Macedonian heroes! Will you allow your beautiful homeland to be buried while you are still alive? Look at her wounds inflicted by the poisoned arrows of the surrounding peoples who want to split her up! In such a desperate position our dear motherland of Macedonia is looking at us with her eyes full of tears, calling:

If you are really my children, if Macedonian blood is still flowing in your veins, then it will be better to die for me than to remain
living witnesses of the disappearance of the Macedonian nationality. Do not believe any more the intrigues of the neighbouring peoples who only desire my downfall. You are the children of my womb, regardless of whether you speak Turkish, Greek, Bulgarian, Serbian, Romanian, Wallachian or Hebrew. All of you are my babies, regardless of whether you believe in Mohammed, Moses or Jesus. Although some of you may recognize the Pope as your leader, others the Sheikh-Islam, a
third group the Exarch, a fourth the Patriarch, a fifth the Rabbi, you are nevertheless the children of your only mother of Macedonia who weeps day and night, imploring you to be reconciled and agree among yourselves and become brothers. Will you not be ashamed if you were split up and divided by your neighbours who speak in their respective languages but who are my enemies? Will you moreover allow them to bury me in the grave together with the glorious Macedonian name? If you do not desire it, but, on the contrary, if you want to heal my wounds and decide as real Macedonians to write "Macedonia
to the Macedonians" upon the banner I have raised today, then banish from the land of your great-grandfathers all the conspirators that inculcate discord and national hatred among you, my children and brothers in blood, and disunite you into various alien nationalities. Acknowledging this banner of mine as your only true banner, call out: Long live the indivisible Macedonian people!

From the protocol of the latest meeting of the Central "Macedonia to the Macedonians" Society, at which it was decided to print this proclamation in all the languages of Macedonia.

In Constantinople, 15th April 189l

The Central Society

“The Macedonians are going to judge your case, please state wether you will use your native language before them" --- Alexander the Great of Macedonia

"As for your Callisthenes, the only person to think you a man, I know why you want him brought forward. It is so that the insults which you sometimes uttered against me and sometimes heard from him can be repeated by his lips before this gathering. Where he Macedonian, I would have introduced him here along with you - a teacher truly worthy of his pupil. As it is, he is an Olynthian and does NOT enjoy the same rights." ---Alexander the Great, the Macedonian

"Recently he behaved rather impudently on a hunt. I resorted to our traditional custom, followed by kings of Macedon from the earliest times, and ordered him to be flogged." --- Alexander the Great, the Macedonian

So I shall bedazzle them from the start: they are expecting a completely humble and sordid force, and I shall show them that we come not lusting after gold and silver but to subjugate the whole world. You, traitor, wished to abort this glorious enterprise and to deliver up the Macedonians to the races they had conquered by eliminating their king." --- Alexander the Great, the Macedonian

"But, he claims, I am foisting Persian habits on the Macedonians. True, for I see in many races things we should not blush to imitate, and the only way this great empire can be satisfactorily governed is by our transmitting some things to the natives and learning others from them ourselves." --- Alexander the Great, the Macedonian

"I did not come into Asia to wipe out its races entirely or to transform half the world into a desert. Rather it was to make the people I conquered in warefare feel no regret at my victory. As a consequence, you have men fighting along with you and shedding blood for your empire who would have rebelled had they been treated disdainfully. Possession achieved by the sword is not of long duration, but gratitude for kindness shown is everlasting." --- Alexander the Great, the Macedonian

A Greek Orator from Athens on the Macedonian King Phillip II:

.........not only no Hellene, nor related to the Hellenes, but not even a barbarian from any place that can be named with honors, but a pestilent knave from Macedonia, whence it was never yet possible to buy a decent slave.... --- Demosthenes, Phillipics

*Waiting for a brittanica copy paste reply that will explain this..*

Macedonian Chief speaking about VMRO:

"The Organisation is the population, and the population is the Organisation" --- Todor Aleksandrov

During the night Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and begging him, 'Come over to Macedonia and help us' --- New Testament, Acts



A message to the Macedonian Brothers and Slavic Apostles, Saints Cyril and Methody:

You are both natives of Salonika, and all Salonikans speak pure Slavonic -- Byzantine Emperor Michael III, 9th century

Excellent!This is Alexanders speech in court against Pausanis!!
I'll just quote Jane Sandanski:
„Да живееш значи да се бориш: робот за слобода, а слободниот - за совршенство"

Against Philotas

"How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens." - Alexander the Great

For in that region is Illyricum, whither Paul first repaired and where the Slavs originally lived --- Russian Primary Chronicle, 12th Century