Alexander III of Russia/reign 1881

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    “The Empress is Legitimist, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.”
    —Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)

    “... from Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror ...”
    —Golda Meir (1898–1978)

    “Here reign the simplicity and purity of a primitive age, and a health and hope far remote from towns and cities.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)