Alexander I Quotes
That infernal creature who is the curse of all the human race becomes every day more and more abominable.
Alexander I, 1777-1825, Czar of Russia, Reference to Napoleon Bonaparte, Letter to his sister, January 5, 1812
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Djilas, who had fought against the Nazis and had witnessed the cruelty of both Hitler and Mussolini, nonetheless thought Stalin should deserved the title as the most infamous criminal in history.
In George Washington’s administration, Jefferson was Secretary of State and the Capitol of the country was New York. Jefferson, never a lover of cities, found himself having to work every day in New York.
While France was in the midst of a violent revolution, the American debate was on the power and prestige of the Presidency. Then Vice President John Adams was a proponent of a strong executive. Most others were not.
The same article denies the fact that the Holocaust ever existed. Al-Akhbar was not just an ordinary newspaper. It is the Egyptian Government’s Official Daily Newspaper—the same Government that was the recipient of the second largest amount of United States foreign aid.
Herbert Hoover had made a name for himself by his splendid administration of World War I famine relief, but he was also :
See {57636} for one of her more absurd statements.
Harrison was a General at the time.
Beaumarchais served the French King Louis XVI as a spy and advisor on foreign affairs. He was instrumental in influencing the French King and his government to tilt in favor of the American Revolutionaries.
The British Empire had outlawed the slave trade and the United States had also done so. However, there was still a brisk slave trade where Black Africans were captured by Arab slavers and sold into slavery in Arabia. It was the open sore that had to be healed. See {609754}. He also used the phrase in his last letter, and it was engraved on his tomb in Westminster Abby. The Arab states were the last countries to legally abolish slavery in 1963—a century after this quotation. Still the anti slavery laws are weakly enforced so there is some slavery ongoing in the Middle East, Africa an parts of Asia still.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Alexander I was the Emperor of Russia (Tsar) from 1801, the first King of Congress Poland from 1815, and the Grand Duke of Finland from 1809 to his death. He was the eldest son of Emperor Paul I and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg.
