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“The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the
question, and the country be left to honest European guidance.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes 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.”
Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone Quotes Source: in a speech
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“The Lofty Gate of the Royal Tent.”
Mahomet II, the Great Quotes 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.”
Charles de Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat) Quotes 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.]”
Nicholas I Quotes 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.”
Sir Thomas Roe Quotes 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.”
Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) Quotes Source: to Catherine II, see the "Rundschau", Apr., 1878
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