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7 Quotes for 'Turkey' in the Database.
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Turkey Quotes
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The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the
question, and the country be left to honest European guidance.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: in a letter to a meeting at St. James Hall, London, 1876
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[Turks] one and all, bag and baggage, shall I hope clear out from
the province they have desolated and profaned.
Author: Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone
Source: in a speech
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The Lofty Gate of the Royal Tent.
Author: Mahomet II, the Great
Source: see E.S. Creasy "History of the Ottoman Turks", p. 96 (ed. 1877)
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[The Ottoman Empire] whose sick body was not supported by a mild
and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually
exhausted it.
Author: Charles de Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat)
Source: Persian Letters (I, 19)
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We have on out hands a sick man,--a very sick man. [The sick man
of Europe, the Turk.]
Author: Nicholas I
Source: conversation with Sir George Hamilton Seymour (1853), see "Blue Book" (1854)
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[The Ottoman Empire] has the body of a sick old man, who tried to
appear healthy, although his end was near.
Author: Sir Thomas Roe
Source: see Buchanan "Letter", 375
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Your Majesty may think me an impatient sick man, and that the
Turks are even sicker.
Author: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
Source: to Catherine II, see the "Rundschau", Apr., 1878
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