“The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.”
Alan Beattie“The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.”
Alan Beattie“The only real recourse that [Russian] people had against tsarist rule was violence and rebellion. It was once remarked that Russia's constitution was "absolutism moderated by assassination.”
Alan Beattie, False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World