A Concise History of Greece Quotes

“****your Parliament and your Constitution. America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea. Greece is a flea. If those two fleas continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked by the elephant’s trunk, whacked good. President Lyndon Johnson to the Greek ambassador in Washington (1964)”
― Richard Clogg, A Concise History of Greece

“Small wonder that the gibe of an eighteenth-century Armenian banker that ‘you Greeks change your patriarch more often than your shirt’ struck home uncomfortably.”
― Richard Clogg, A Concise History of Greece