The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England. (Quote by - Dean William R. Inge)

When the freedom they wished for most was the freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again. (Quote by - Edith Hamilton)

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence. (Quote by - John Milton)

I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world. (Quote by - Socrates)

Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were; First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away--Is this the whole? (Quote by - Lord Byron)

Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart! (Quote by - Lord Byron)