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The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die.

No, the czar did not want us in the schools.

The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president.

Given the gruesome fate of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family, and the fact that five of the previous 12 Romanov rulers were also murdered, it is easy to regard Russia's imperial dynasty as cursed.

It's hard for me not to have a great deal of compassion for the last Romanov family because, really, I don't know if a politically savvy ruler would have been able to make the situation turn out much differently.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Bolshevism is the other end of Czarism.