Military Leader

🇫🇷Napoleon I of France

Politics

1769–1821

"A King should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination."

Genghis Khan

Military

1162–1227

"Be of one mind and one faith, that you may conquer your enemies and lead long and happy lives."

🇺🇸Oliver Cromwell

Politics

1752–1853

"The dimensions of this mercy are above my thoughts. It is for aught I know, a crowning mercy."

🇮🇷Mohsen Rezaee

Politics

b. 1954

"The American empire is hovering between life and death."

Ahmad Shah Massoud

Politics

1953–2001

"If President Bush doesn't help us, these terrorists will damage the U.S. and Europe very soon."

Bashar al-Assad

Politics

b. 1965

"I'm not a puppet. I wasn't made by the west to go to the west or any other country. I'm Syrian. I'm made in Syria. I have to live in Syria and die in Syria."

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Military

Arab nationalism

1918–1970

"We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us."

🇮🇷Nader Shah

Politics

1688–1747

"Once, when Nadir was told that there was no war in paradise, he was reported to have asked: "How can there be any delights there?."

Marko Miljanov

Literature

1833–1901

"Bravery is to defend yourself from another, and the humanity is to defend the other from yourself."

🇮🇷Babak Khorramdin

Politics

"Perhaps I shall survive, perhaps not. I have been known as the commander. Wherever I am present or am mentioned, I am the king."

Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah

Politics

1565–1612

"Christopher Shackle: Urdu And South Muslim Asia, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1991"

🇮🇷Massoud Rajavi

Politics

1948–2003

"If Iran stands, the world will stand with us and by our side."

Erich Ludendorff

Politics

1865–1937

"I will give up troops gladly as long as I know that they will be used in the right place to bring victory."

Józef Piłsudski

Politics

1867–1935

"A great nation, only the people are cunts."

🇪🇬Ayman al-Zawahiri

Medicine

Salafi jihadism

1951–2022

"“Our people in Sham prepare yourselves for a long battle with the Crusaders and their allies the Shi’ites and Alawites,"

Sulla

Politics

-137–-77

"No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full."

🇺🇸Stonewall Jackson

Military

1824–1863

"Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees."

Cyrus the Great

Politics

-599–-529

"Cyropaedia : The Education of Cyrus, by Xenophon, as translated by Henry Graham Dakyns and revised by F.M. Stawell"

🇲🇦Mohammed VI of Morocco

Politics

b. 1963

"Is it reasonable to think that Morocco respects human rights in the north of the country and transgresses them in the south?"

Hannibal

Politics

-246–-182

"Ah there is one thing about them more wonderful than their numbers … in all that vast number there is not one man called Gisgo."

🇪🇬Anwar Sadat

Politics

capitalism

1918–1981

"The goal is to bring security to the peoples of the area, and the Palestinians in particular, restoring to them all their right to a life of liberty and dignity… This is what I stand for."

🇨🇭Michael I of Romania

Politics

1921–2017

"Because tens of millions of people have been destroyed practically, gone through absolute hell, and then suddenly they say, 'Well, it's all finished, let's forget it.' You don't forget it."