On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!

Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] 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.

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

Bury my body and don't build any monument. Keep my hands out so the people know the one who won the world had nothing in hand when he died.

Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.