thug.marie

"I have a dream!"
"Let them eat cake."


I was thinking about historic one liners and off the top of my head I came up with these two.
With one little sentence it you get the entire picture.
Anyone have more to add?

sturm

"If you don't want peace, you get an axe!"

DIVUS IVLIVS

"Veni Vidi Vici" - Julius Caesar, after taking most of Asia Minor back from King Pharnaces in just 5 days, 4 hours.

"One sharp blow and the war is over" - Napoleon Bonaparte, before ordering his reserves in at the battle of Austerlitz.

"It's not enough that we do our best - sometimes we have to do what is required" - Winston Churchill.

"If my body dies, let my body die, but do not let my country die" - Genghis Khan.

"All I know is that I know nothing" - Socrates

"I would not be a queen for all the world" - Henry VIII of England

Jebusrocks

I expect every Englishmen to do their duty
-Horatio Nelson

Do Not Compare your physical forces with those of the enemy's, for the spirit should not be compared with matter.
You are men; they are beasts; you are free, they are slaves.
- Simon Bolivar, 1814


I am more Afraid of our mistakes than our enemies' designs
- Pericles

It will give me great pleasure to fight for my God against your Gods, who are a mere nothing
- Hernan Cortes to the Aztec priesthood, 1521

Do you really want to spend your entire lives praying for longetivity? We were born in order to die! Whoever is with
me, come to the battlefield tommorow morning. Whoever is not, just stay whereever you are and watch me win it!
- Oda Nobunaga on the eve of the Battle of Okehazama 1560

My life Has been one Long Journey
- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead ot extravagance, our love of things of the mind make us soft
- Pericles, oration for the dead

I found Rome a city of bricks, and left it a city of Marble
- Augustus

I had rather have a plain captain that knows what he fights for, than what you call a gentlemen
- Oliver Cromwell

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?"
- Mahatma Gandhi

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for."
- Mahatma Gandhi

'I do believe, that where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.'"
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Yes I am (a Hindu). I am also a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist and a Jew."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"The sayings of Muhammad are a treasure of wisdom, not only for Muslims but for all of mankind."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians."
- Mahatma Gandhi

Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself.
- Confucius


It is better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees
- Zapata

Sargon of Akkad

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. - Napoleon

Avooc

Eat to Live, Don't Live to Eat.

Heidi XX

If they retreat,shoot them.-Joesph Stalin ww2.

ttanner

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas A. Edison

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." - Sir Winston Churchill

"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world." - George Santayana

Wobomagonda

VAE VICTUS - Brennus

"woe unto the conquered"

King of Rome

"Destiny'' - Napoleon