I can't find this quote by Genghis Khan.

[Mouthwash]

I once read that Genghis Khan said something similar to "Through lies I have led my people, and through lies my country can eventually gain wisdom," or something generally in that direction. I'm not entirely sure if another Khan said this because I can't find it anywhere.

 

[Glassfan]

Routine Internet search comes up zilch. It sounds apochryphal, like a rival deliberately misquoted him.

 

[Lord Baal]

I once read that Genghis Khan said something similar to "Through lies I have led my people, and through lies my country can eventually gain wisdom," or something generally in that direction. I'm not entirely sure if another Khan said this because I can't find it anywhere.

He said this shortly before he died after being encircled in the Po river valley.

 

[KevinLancaster]

He said this shortly before he died after being encircled in the Po river valley.

Err, what? Genghis never reached Italy...

 

[Glassfan]

Err, what? Genghis never reached Italy...

It was a lie, get it?

Purrump!!

 

[Lord Baal]

Err, what? Genghis never reached Italy...

You clearly haven't read Mouthwash's other thread.

 

[Phrossack]

Never heard of this. Most historical quotes are probably fictional anyway.

 

[Arakhor]

"I found Rome a city of dial-up and left it a city of broadband." ~ Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus

 

[Joecoolyo]

"Never trust quotes on the internet" - Abraham Lincoln

 

[Mouthwash]

Routine Internet search comes up zilch. It sounds apochryphal, like a rival deliberately misquoted him.

No, it was different. Like Vladimir Lenin saying "There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience." I might have read it at Brainyquote, but his page there seems to have been deleted.

 

[kensington888]

"I dont like cigars and brandy" Winston Churchill

 

[History_Buff]

 

[holy king]

 

[Graceheart the Leopard]

"Have it your way!"- Charlemagne

 

[KevinLancaster]

Someone should create a fake quotes thread in Off-Topic.

 

[Glassfan]

Snicker, chuckle...

 

[potatokiosk]

"If lies can show the truth, they can be the truth, they can cause the truth, so I may build an empire on lies, but they are the truth."
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Genghis_Khan
It's unsourced.

 

[NedimNapoleon]

"I found Rome a city of dial-up and left it a city of broadband." ~ Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus

Thats sig worthy.

 

[History_Buff]

For full effect, make it Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Baltar.