Unjust Rule Quotes
What is particularly interesting about this passage is that a Middle Eastern contemporary historian and commentator compared circumstances to political events with the Umayyads and the Abbisids to those in Persia and Rome. Chosroes (Khosrow) was a Persian King who had his brothers murdered, and Caesar was viewed as a tyrant. Even then, the history of politics, in one country influenced events and attitudes in others,
This quotation is inscribed on the FDR Memorial in Washington DC.
England had negotiated and signed hundreds of treaties with the many maharajas and others in and regarding India. As India was establishing its own government under Great Britain, they kept running up against old treaties which limited their actions, especially for reform.
Nostradamus made thousands of prophecies most of which seem not to have occurred as he predicted. However there were a few that some people believe predicted later events. In this case, some people believe that he foretold the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Fortunately for Turkey and the world, a great Turkish leader, Ataturk, rose up and radically reformed the nation and transformed it to a European style, secular democracy which became the most successful Muslim nation in the world but was under pressure by Ismalists to revert and have more religious control. Ataturk ended the Turkey that TR and others were criticizing.