Russian Empire Order

Famous quotes containing the words russian, empire and/or order:

    From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
    Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)

    The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it.... “Beware of me,” it says, “but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    It is with unfathomable love, pure joy and no regret that we leave this world. Men, do not cry for our fate, but cry for your own.
    —Members of the Order of the Solar T.. New York Times, p. 1 (October l4, 1994)