ALEXANDER I


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The very word torture is a disgrace to the human race.
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We will base our actions upon the sublime truths which the Holy Religion of our Savior teaches. Both in the administration of our respective States, and in our political relations with every other government, we take for our sole guide the precepts of Holy Religion, namely, the precepts of Justice, Christian Charity and Peace, which, far from being applicable only to private concerns, must have an immediate influence on the councils of Princes, and guide all their steps.
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We can not cure great and inveterate evils at once
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Clarkson had asked the Czar about the behavior of the Allied Sovereigns at the Congress at Vienna where they had a opportunity to proclaimed the Slave trade to be piracy but were not quite able to muster a majority. The Czar was a foe of slavery trafficking and was opposed to slavery itself,

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[Writing about Napoleon Bonaparte:] That infernal creature who is the curse of the human race becomes every day more and more abominable.
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That infernal creature who is the curse of all the human race becomes every day more and more abominable.
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… the sick man of Europe
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Everybody is getting a little bigger nowadays.
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When John Quincy Adams was the Ambassador to Russia he was called to explain to the Czar why the United States had virtually annexed portions of Spanish West Florida in contravention of then international standards of conduct. The Czar responded to the explanation:

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I will never desert the cause of the Africans injured by slavery; I will not disappoint you.
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Alexander I
  • Born: December 23, 1777
  • Died: December 1, 1825
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Alexander I was the Emperor of Russia (Tsar) from 1801, the first King of Congress Poland from 1815, and the Grand Duke of Finland from 1809 to his death. He was the eldest son of Emperor Paul I and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg.