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Babak Khorramdin Quotes

d. 830

Babak Khorramdin (795/8–838) was an Iranian revolutionary leader of the Khurramites—a local freedom movement in Azerbaijan fighting the Abbasid Caliphate.

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

Perhaps I shall survive, perhaps not... Wherever I am present or am mentioned, I am the king.

[...] It is better to live for just a single day as a ruler than to live for forty years as an abject slave.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Babak Khorramdin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.