“It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait for it to abolish itself from below.”
Speech (30 March 1856), as quoted in A Concise History of Russia (1972) by Ronald Hingley\. p. 122.
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“The loneliness of despotism, or the fear of violent death.”
The interpretation of Benjamin Disraeli of Alexander II<nowiki>'s sad face in a letter written in 1880 to Lady Chesterfield, as quoted in Stanley Weintraub, Victoria. Biography of a queen</nowiki> (1987), p. 413.
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