Tsar Quotes
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Tsar Alexander reached Paris.
joseph stalin— Said to an American diplomat who remarked how grateful it must be to see Russian troops in Berlin. Quoted in Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger
Do you remember the Tsar? Well, I‘m like a Tsar.
joseph stalin— To his mother in the 1930’s as quoted in Young Stalin (2007) by Simon Sebag Montefiore
A spectre is haunting Europethe spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holyalliance to exorcise this spectre; Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police spies.
— 1848 The Communist Manifesto (with Friedrich Engels, translated by Samuel Moore,1888).
The Tsar is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.
— On his cousin, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, as quoted in Harold Nicolson, Sir Arthur Nicolson, Bart., First Lord Carnock: A Study in the Old Diplomacy, London: Constable & Co., 1930, p. 214.
A spectre is haunting Europe the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.
— Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, in The Communist Manifesto (1848)
