Shocking Sayings

Alexander ignored his advisers by his regard for all people with law and government.

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

καὶ σύ, τέκνον (kai sy, teknon) - 'You too, child?'

The poor wretches say anything that comes into their mind and what they think the interrogator wishes to know.

I Shall Kill You Without Shedding Your Blood.

Never was there a man more fitted by nature for the command of an army, and to inspire confidence in his soldiers, than Hannibal.

Enemies are not to be despised, however humble; and friends are not to be trusted, however great.

By the Splendour of God, I will not be swayed!

The whole world knows that I am a King, and a King's word is his bond.

I am a slave, and not a king, to listen to the advice of others.

I gave orders for scalping the slain.

The liberty of blacks could be guaranteed only under an independent black government.

I will be what I ought to be, and if I am not, I will be nothing.

Here we make Italy or we die.

Not by speeches and votes of the majority are the great questions of time decided — that was the great error of 1848 and 1849 — but by iron and blood.

I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue come money and every other good of man, public as well as private.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

From the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule.

The Negroes of Africa have received from nature no intelligence that rises above the foolish.