Favourite Historical Quotes

[AggofanCZ]

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires, but upon what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ alone founded his empire upon love, and at this hour millions of men would die for him.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

[Vane]

Mine is by Muhammad Ali

Frazier: ''Ali is phony, using his blackness to get his way''

Ali: ''Joe Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wildlife''

[Eternal]

"Respect is everything" and "Waasteeed" - GTA 2
Just kiddin'

Every quote from Sun Tzu is a good quote. While aimed at the battlefield, it is true for life as-well. For example:
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

But the best quote is of the following:
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

[Dwarf]

"It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it"

          -General Robert E. Lee to General Longstreet, Battle of Fredericksburg, atop Telegraph Hill

[Phailur]

"Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses"

- Juvenal (or Iuvenalis)

[~Midnight~]

"If you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you." -Randy Pausch

[StevenChilton]

'Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won' -Wellington

[Thunderstormer]

"A battle without artillery would be nothing more than an ugly brawl." -Some guy i've forgotten whom.

Frederick the Great.

Another good quote.

Hostilities should not be confused with aggression.  The one who makes the first plan to attack his neighbor breaks the engagements that he has undertaken for the peace, he plots, he conspires; this is in what true aggression consists.  The one who has learned of it and who does not take the initiative is a coward; the one who foresees(the plan of) his enemy commits the first hostilities, but he is not the aggressor.  (got this from a good book.  Frederick the Great, The magnificent Enigma by Robert Asprey.  haven't had the chance to read his books on Napoleon hopefully they are just as good )

I can see why Patton was a great admirer of Frederick. 

[Otto von Bismarck]

“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”  - Napoléon Bonaparte
"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic." -Joseph Stalin
"If you're going through hell, keep going." -Winston Churchill
"We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world(...)" -Otto von Bismarck
"You will be home before the leaves fall from the trees." -Kaiser Wilhelm II (addressing German soldiers departing for the front in August 1914)

[Nick Lazanis]

 the Earth was created on Sunday the 21st of October, 4004 B.C., at exactly 9:00 A.M.
-James Usher

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
- Joseph Stalin

And 2 extra ones. Not very historical but I still think they are excellent quotes;

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.
-Anton Chekhov

Don't do drugs,there aren't enough for all of us
-Jimis Panousis

[Blaze]

"We are not makers of History
We are made by History" - Martin Luther King. JR

[OttoFIN]

[Eternal]

Well, I guess I'll make another quote since it's been a while since I posted here.
Today I'll share this one:
"People build army"

Which was later improved to the following quote:
"People build army build people"

Unlike the previous quotes I shared, this one is not that known. However, just like the others, I think it's very true.

[OttoFIN]

"People build army build people"

Is it just me or does that sound like really broken English? 

[Eternal]

"People build army build people"

Is it just me or does that sound like really broken English? 

It's not an English quote. I had to translate it, and I just did it literally. The way I would translate with "correct grammar" would be more like this:
The people build (or shape) the army, and the army builds (or shapes) the people.

And if I translate it back to the original language, it would sound different. Thus the translation would be more how I understand the quote, but doesn't necessarily mean that that is what they meant exactly (and another person might understand it differently).
But, no matter how you decide to understand the logical sense of the quote, the meaning is basically the same.

Logically that's how I think it works:
Army build people only if people build army (People build army -> army build people)

Some might see it like this
Army build people if and only if people build army (People build army <-> army build people)

Considering that historically the first quote was used (People build army), and later was improved to the second version, I think my version is more correct.

Or I just might be wrong overall.