Vision without action is daydream action without vision is nightmare.
...a Minor, Syria and Egypt without incurring a single defeat. Over the next eight years, in his capacity as king, commander, politician, scholar and explorer, Alexander led his army a further 11,000 miles, founding over 70 cities and creating an empire that stretched across three continents and covered some two million square miles. The entire area from Greece in the west, north to the Danube, south into Egypt and as far east as the Indian Punjab, was linked together in a vast international network of trade and commerce. This was united by a common Greek language and culture, whilst the king himself adopted foreign customs in order to rule his millions of ethnically diverse subjects. The fact that his army only refused to do so once, in the 13 years of a reign during which there was constant fighting, indicates the loyalty he inspired. Alexander III of Macedon, better known as Alexander the Great, single-handedly changed the entire nature of the ancient world in little more than ten years. Now I’d like to talk about the second person, he to was the leader of a prosperous nation, he to fought several wars, one for 8 years, resulting the economic ruin, over a million lives were lost and not a single inch of land changed hands, then he invaded another country, failed to use the strategic surprise to secure his position lost that war, and ultimately lost his country and now is in the dock for war crimes and countless number of atrocities. He is of course Saddam Hussein. Vision without action is daydream action without vision is nightmare. No where does this proverb hold more true than for the legacies of these two men, one who is still considered the greatest conqueror of all time, and the other if he wa...