Henry Morgenthau, Sr. quotes

Henry Morgenthau, Sr. was an American lawyer, businessman, and diplomat, best known for serving as the U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I. His humanitarian efforts brought attention to the Armenian Genocide and advocated for aid to its victims. He remains an important figure in the history of American diplomacy and human rights. Here are 3 of his quotes:

The imagination of these conquered peoples was dazzled by the introduction of Greek art, literature, philosophy, and public works. Though the successors of Alexander were unable to maintain the political control of the lands he conquered, and though successive waves of Roman, Arabian, and Tartar conquests swept over these lands in succeeding centuries, none of the later conquerors has been able wholly to eradicate the influence of Greek culture, nor to exterminate that element of population which was of Greek blood.

Henry Morgenthau, Sr.

When the Turks and the Bulgarians left, Macedonia remained a purely Greek region.

Henry Morgenthau, Sr.