Pelasgia
Established Nation
«Ἡ Β΄ Δημοκρατία δὲν ἰδρύθηκε οὔτε ἀπὸ δικηγόρους, οὔτε ἀπὸ ἐμπόρους: τὴν ἰδρυσε μία ὁμάδα στρατηγῶν, ποὺ οἱ μισοὶ γεννήθηκαν σχεδὸν ξυπόλητοι σὲ ἀπόμακρα χωριὰ καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι μισοί, Πατρίκιοι ἀπὸ τὰ χρόνια τῶν Καισάρων. Ἡ Δημοκρατία μας, κύριοι, εἶναι ἐν μέρει λαϊκὴ καὶ ἐν μέρει ἀριστοκρατική· ἀστικὴ πάντως δὲν εἶναι!»
"The Second [Carian] Republic was founded by neither lawyers nor merchants: its founders were a group of generals, half of whom were born nearly barefoot in distant hamlets and the rest, Patricians from the days of the Caesars. Our Republic, gentlemen, is part popular and part aristocratic; she is not, however, bourgeois!"
"The Second [Carian] Republic was founded by neither lawyers nor merchants: its founders were a group of generals, half of whom were born nearly barefoot in distant hamlets and the rest, Patricians from the days of the Caesars. Our Republic, gentlemen, is part popular and part aristocratic; she is not, however, bourgeois!"
- Prof. Alexios Demetriopoulos, Chair of Constitutional Law at the National University of Nauplia
during a lecture on the tenth Anniversary of the Proclamation of the Second Republic (2004)
during a lecture on the tenth Anniversary of the Proclamation of the Second Republic (2004)
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