Omar Mukhtar

I will not leave this place until I achieve one of the two highest levels; martyrhood or victory.

— Omar Mukhtar

I never submitted to the Italian government: I only had conversations with it.

— Omar Mukhtar

I took part in all battles. If sometimes I was not there, the operation was likewise carried out under my orders.

— Omar Mukhtar

It is useless for you to ask me single facts. Whatever has been committed against Italy and the Italians for the past ten years was willed and permitted by me, whenever I did not personally take part in the acts themselves. … The raids, too, were ordered by me and some of them carried out by me.

— Omar Mukhtar

War is war.

— Omar Mukhtar

I am not sorry for what I did because it was God's will.

— Omar Mukhtar

From God we have come and to God we must return.

— Omar Mukhtar