Cyrus the Great:

My strength lies not in the number of my soldiers, but in the loyalty of my subjects.

— Cyrus the Great Ancient

Founder of the Achaemenid Empire

A statement on the importance of popular support rather than brute force.

c. 540 BCE

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"I am the liberator, not the conqueror."

"No one shall be oppressed under my rule."

"All the lands I conquered, I governed with justice."

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