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Alexis de Tocqueville1 quote
There are, at the present time, two great nations in the world, which seem to tend towards the same end, although they started from different points; I allude to the Russians and the Americans... Their starting point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems to be marked out by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe. — Alexis de Tocqueville · 1840Astolphe de Custine1 quote
Whoever has really seen Russia will find himself content to live anywhere else. It is always good to know that a society exists where no happiness is possible because, by a law of nature, man cannot be happy unless he is free. — Astolphe de Custine · 1843Kevin Dolenz1 quote
I enjoy being afraid of Russia. It's a harmless fear, but it makes America feel better, Russia gets an inflated sense of national worth from our paranoia. How's that? — Kevin Dolenz · 1985Nikolai Gogol1 quote
A land that does not like doing things by halves. — Nikolai Gogol · 1842Vladimir Putin1 quote
The collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. — Vladimir Putin · 2005Vladimir the Great1 quote
It is the Russians' joy to drink; we cannot do without it. — Vladimir the Great · 1113Winston Churchill1 quote
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. — Winston Churchill · 1939