12 “these are family matters”: Gorbatov, 70
13 “I believe we must moderate”: Ibid.
14 “Semiramis of the North”: Durant, 9:448
15 “try to persuade the octogenarian”: Madariaga,
16 “in certain ways … a hundred”: Gorbatov, 177
17 “You and M. Diderot”: Durant, 9:719
18 “Go on, brave Diderot”: Ibid.
19 “It would be cruel”: Gooch, 60
20 “I prostrate myself”: Troyat, 177
21 “we are three who would build you altars”: Ibid., 178
22 “Thirty years of labor”: Ibid.
23 “I never thought”: Gorbatov, 156
24 “That door will be opened to you”: Oliva, 119
25 “my good lady”: Troyat, 207
26 “an extraordinary man”: Durant, 9:448
27 “I have listened”: Troyat, 207
28 “Now you sit beside Caesar”: Ibid., 209
29 “Madame, I am positively in disgrace”: Reddaway, 198
30 “Live, Monsieur”: Ibid., 199
31 “returned to her in chains”: Ibid., 200
51. THE
1 “one of the most remarkable political treatises”: Madariaga,
2 “Russia is a European state”: Ibid., 153
3 “it is much better to prevent than to punish crimes”: Reddaway, 225
4 “productive of nothing”: Ibid., 288
5 “The use of torture is contrary”: Ibid., 231
6 “without any sensible inconveniences”: Ibid., 232
7 “What right can give anyone authority”: Ibid., 244
8 “All punishments by which the human body”: Ibid., 227
9 “Some judges should be of the same rank”: Ibid., 232
10 “a civil society requires a certain established order”: Ibid., 256
11 “Why should they bother to be clean”: Haslip, 162
12 “These are axioms which will bring down walls”: Madariaga,
13 “I let them erase what they pleased”: Ibid.
14 “Since the Law of Nature”: Reddaway, 256
15 “I have decked myself out in peacock’s feathers”: Grey, 147
16 “I have robbed Montesquieu”: Troyat, 179
17 “would have been capable”: Troyat, 182
18 “the finest monument of the age”: Gooch, 67
19 “A masculine, nervous performance”: Troyat, 182
20 “I must warn Your Majesty”: Madariaga,
52. “ALL FREE ESTATES OF THE REALM”
1 “By this institution, we give to our people”: Alexander, 102
2 “you will receive a letter”: Ibid., 103
3 “There can be nothing more pleasant”: Ibid., 108
4 “These laws, about which so much has been said”: Ibid., 109
5 “There are so many objects”: Ibid.
6 “Here, the people along the Volga”: Ibid., 110
7 “The town rose high on a hill”: Kerensky, 3
