Quotes
In regards to Albania:
- "I am well when Albania is well"
In regards to the atrocities committed by the Serbs during the break up of the Ottoman empire:
- "When the spring comes, we will manure the plains of Kosovo with the bones of Serbs, for we Albanians have suffered too much to forget."
When Sir Edward Grey met Isa Boletini in London at the British Foreign Office after having his pistol belt's ammunition removed:
EG:"General, the newspapers might record tomorrow that Isa Boletini, whom even Mahmut Shefqet Pasha could not disarm, was just disarmed in London." IB:"No, no, not in London either." (he withdrew from his pocket a second pistol)
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“Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say “I think,” “I am,” but quotes some saint or sage.”
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