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

Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

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

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

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.

We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.