Elizabeth Farnese Quotes
The Spanish do not like me, but I fully detest them also.
Elizabeth Farnese, 1692-1766, Niece of Antonio Farnese, Duke of Parma, Queen of Spain, 1714-1746, Quoted in Williams, The Story of Spain
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Describing the bitter situation when Theodore Roosevelt contested William Howard Taft for the Republican 1912 presidential nomination:
The attitude of the non-Muslims at that time was based on the Muslim attacks in the Punjab on Sikhs where entire Sikh villages and neighborhoods in towns and cities were murdered—every man woman and child. In many cases women were first raped. The Muslims had been whipped up by the leaders of the Muslim League to put terrorist pressure on the Sikh, Hindu and British to meet the League's political and territorial demands for an Independent Pakistan. Soon there was retaliation in kind and there were many Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims engaged in internecine slaughter and behaving "little better than animals".
Disraeli was the 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
Expressing his feeling regarding President Grover Cleveland who failed to deal with serious economic problems:
He was referring to the people of India and not the American Indians for who he also had little respect like almost any minority.
Elisabeth Farnese was Queen of Spain by marriage to King Philip V. She exerted great influence over Spain's foreign policy and was the de facto ruler of Spain from 1714 until 1746. From 1759 until 1760, she governed as regent.
