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“If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia to the farthest Ocean, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of the Hellenic justice and peace over every nation, I should not be content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power, but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes. But as things are, forgive me Diogenes, that I imitate Herakles, and emulate Perseus, and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos, the divine author and progenitor of my family, and desire that victorious Hellenes should dance again in India and revive the memory of the Bacchic revels among the savage mountain tribes beyond the Kaukasosâ€�”
― Alexander the Great

“- What do you want to be when you grow up?, asked a Macedonian father his child.
- A foreign citizen.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“We would walk away from the past, if we had a future.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“What strange and unexpected event has not occurred in our time? The life we have lived is no ordinary human one, but we were born to be an object of wonder to posterity.â€�

(Aeschines about  the conquest of Persia  and the later Macedonian Victory)”
― -Aeschines

“Our history is unpredictable.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“What amounted to civil war began. Greek 'bands' adopted the methods of the Bulgarian 'bands'. Greek-speaking villages which had adopted the Bulgarian Church were obliged to renounce their religion and become Greeks proper, or have their houses burnt, or worse. The villagers, who would like to be left in peace, yielded, and instead of Bulgarians became Greeks. When the Greek 'band' withdrew, down came the Bulgarian 'band' to reconvert the village and make the inhabitants Bulgarian again. Thereupon the Greek 'band' cut a few throats and fired a few houses just to remind the peasants they must be Greeks or be killed... The bishops and priests of the Greek Church in particular not only countenanced but urged crime as a means of compelling Bulgarian Macedonians to proclaim themselves Greeks.”
― John Foster Fraser, Pictures from the Balkans

“How absolutely out of place, how incongruous it seemed amongst these great hills, these eternal mountains, that man should have the effrontery to bring his petty strifes into their great silent spaces.”
― Edward Percy Stebbing, At the Serbian Front in Macedonia

“Our history is unpredictable. Who knows what will we be in some future past tense?!”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“If you are in Macedonia and if you are happy, don't change the political party.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Macedonia has been receiving positive recommendations for entry into the European Union for 12 years now . It is three circles ahead of Dante's hell.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Macedonia has been receiving positive recommendations for entry into the European Union for 12 years now. It is three circles ahead of Dante's Inferno.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“The road to the European Union is paved with good intentions. .”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Populism has no future in Macedonia. We are running out of people.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“We never lose elections. We always make a coalition with the winner.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Success is going from one failure to another without a lack of enthusiasm - W. Churchill”
― Kevin Elliott, See Miracles: Praying Effectively for the Supernatural Christian Life