Post your favorite quotes by a historicle leader/general. I'm specifically looking for a quote about the fall of Constantinople by Mehemed the Comquerer but I can't seem to find it.
>>876681
This is what he told the Persians before he BTFO'd then
>>876681
"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone" - Charles de Gaulle
"I am the Senate"
>>876714
Islam is such a martial death cult.
>>876681
>When Heraclius captured Phocas, he asked him, "Is this how you have ruled, wretch?" Phocas said in reply, "And will you rule better?"
>proceed to then kick Persian ass
Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.
-Publius Syrus
All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action.
-Muhammad
'I like my wife's son'
-Napoleon
>>876714
Aaaaaaaaaand Persia is ruined.
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."
-Napoleon Bonaparte
>>876681
«Γαμώ την πίστιν σας kαι τον Μωχαμέτη σας. Τι θαρεύσετε kερατάδες… Δεν εντρέπεσθε να ζητείτε “από ημάς” συνθήkην με “έναν” kοντζιά σkατο-Σουλτάν Μαχμούτην -να τον χέσω kαι αυτόν kαι τον Βεζίρην σας kαι τον Εβραίον Σιλιχτάρ Μπόδα την πουτάνα. Άμα ζήσω, θα τους γαμήσω, άμα πεθάνω θα μου kλάσουν τον μπούτσον»
"Fuck your belief, and your Muhammed, do you dare, bastards. Have you no shame "asking us" for a treaty with "one" shitty Sultan Mahmud, I shall shit on him and your Vezir and the Jew Silihtar Botha the whore. If I live, I shall fuck them, if I die they shall fart on my dick (Greek equivalent of: They won't do shit).
General Theodore Karaiskakis of the Greek Revolutionaries in the Greek War for Independence of 1821
>>876681
On entering the city, Mehmed II found himself quoting Saadi the thirteenth century poet:
> "The spider weaves the curtains in the palace of the Caesars/ the owl calls the watches in the towers of Afrasiab"
