Rubio: America owes a debt to Ancient Greece

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke about Western civilization's origins in Ancient Greece as he delivered an address before the Acropolis in Athens on Wednesday. "I stand here to testify to a debt that no lapse of time, no distance of space, can ever extinguish," he said. The secretary said the history of America "is covered with the fingerprints of antiquity," noting the prominence of Greek architecture in Washington, DC. "The men who founded my country were fascinated by the heritage we inherited from yours," he said. "They were exceptionally well-read in history, they were vividly aware of their unique place in it, but no other age of the past held their attention or their imagination quite like that of antiquity." He pointed to Ancient Greece's contributions to politics and philosophy, saying the Western world's ideas of law, virtue, citizenship and republican government were forged in Greek city-states. "But the things we owe to this place, as Americans and as Westerne