Vlad the Impaler Quotes
5 quotes from Vlad the Impaler — Prince of Wallachia (modern Romania) who fought against the Ottoman Empire..
“He killed them all by impalement, them and their sons, wives, and servants, so that this one man caused more murder than any other about whom we have been able to learn.”
“He was not very tall, but very stocky and strong, with a cruel and terrible appearance, a long straight nose, distended nostrils, a thin and reddish face in which the large wide-open green eyes were framed by bushy black eyebrows, which made them appear threatening.”
“He killed them all by impalement, them and their sons, wives, and servants, so that this one man caused more murder than any other about whom we have been able to learn. In order to solidify his hold on power, they say that in a short time he killed twenty thousand men, women and children.”
“This document was written on 20th September 6968 in Bucharest citadel. I, Vlad the King, with the mercy of our Great Lord.”
“Please understand that I have allowed my children to be butchered for the sake of the Christian peace, in order that both I and my country might continue to be vassals to the Holy Roman Empire.”
