Quotes about Athenians

Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.

This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.

What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.