Intention Quote by Saul David

Alexander II really used autocracy well to negotiate the freeing of the serfs in 1861.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

A lot of enslaved people actually made money, but they had no power.

— William C. Rhoden

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.

— Robert M. T. Hunter

“No ruler has ever held power for long without the respect of the governed,” Carlin had told her countless times. “Rulers who attempt to…

— Erika Johansen

Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering…

— Terry Pratchett

No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War.

— Charles Albert Gobat

Independence didn't have to be exile.

— Julia Alvarez

There was no simple riddance to the power of a dangerous political idea; no assassination possible to avert a disruptive change in technology; no…

— Robert Heilbroner

No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.

— Stacy Schiff

My work as secretary of state was not influenced by the outside forces.

— Hillary Clinton

John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.

— George Haven Putnam

Ambition without contribution is of no significance.

— Kevin Kline