Greatest quotes of history

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Alexander the Great

I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.
Alexander the Great
from Letter to King Darius III

Is it not worthy of tears that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet become lords of a single one?
Alexander the Great
When asked why he wept on hearing there was an infinite number of worlds, from On the Tranquillity of the Mind

 

Three can keep a secret, if two are dead.

Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

Some from Ex-Afghan Emir Mullah Mohammad Omer.

I am ready to sacrifice everything in completing the unfinished agenda of our noble Jihad...until there is no bloodshed in Afghanistan and Islam becomes a way of life for our people.
Mullah Mohammad Omer

As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.
Mullah Mohammad Omer

Death comes to everyone. We must stand proud as Afghans in the defense of Islam.
Mullah Mohammad Omer

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.
Mullah Mohammad Omer

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Some of Afghan Leaders:

"Whatever countries I conquer in the world, I would never forget your beautiful gardens. When I remember the summits of your beautiful mountains, I forget the greatness of the Delhi throne."
Ahamad Shah Durrani

"The first and most important advice that I can give to my successors and people to make Afghanistan into a great kingdom is to impress upon their minds the value of unity; unity, and unity alone, can make it into a great power."
Abdur Rahman Khan (The Iron Emir)

"We will never allow you to dictate to us how to run our country and whom to employ in Afghanistan. How and where we employ the foreign experts will remain the exclusive prerogative of the Afghan state. Afghanistan shall remain poor, if necessary, but free in its acts and decisions."
Daud Khan

"The Americans want us to continue fighting but not to win,
just to bleed the Russians."
Ismael Khan

 

"As they have come, so they will go."

(Mustafa Kemal Atat�rk, after the Battle of Gallipoli. Mustafa Kemal Pasha was the chief commander of the "Anafartalar" troops. He called this victory as getting revenge of the destruction of Troy. Also, one of the three main British warships which was destructed by the Turkish forces was Agamemnon, which was suppoused to bombard and destroy Troy (�anakkale).

"I have been able to teach many things to this nation, but I haven't been able to teach how to be lackeys."

(Mustafa Kemal Atat�rk)

"Sovereignty is not given, it is taken."

(Mustafa Kemal Atat�rk)

"Peace at home, peace in the world"

(Mustafa Kemal Atat�rk)

"Happy is he who says, "I am a Turk"."

(Mustafa Kemal Atat�rk)

Inspector Clouseau: [chatting with Scotland Yard about sniffing out Dreyfus, who now has Europe's most infamous hitmen working for him] "Of course it won't be easy; nothing worthwhile ever is. That is why I have always failed where others have succeeded."

 

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called "Ego"

Friedrich Nietsche

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.  Yasser Arafat

Edited by Moustafa Pasha

One not very lovely, but...

"A single death is a tragedy, a million death is just a statistic"

J.Stalin

 

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

                Marquise De S�vign� (1626 - 1696)

Hi,
Right after being captured at the battle of Pavia in 1525, french king
Francis I wrote a letter to his mum ( ):
"Everything's lost, but honor"

And his son, Henri II, impressed by the courage of one his general told
him:
"If I wasn't myself, I'd like to be you"

And one last, Georges Clemanceau, French WWI prime minister said:
"War's something too serious to be left to generals"