- What is going to happen to me and to all of Russia? I am not prepared to be a tsar. I never wanted to become one. I know nothing of the business of ruling. I have no idea of even how to talk to the ministers.
- There is no justice among men.
- The Tsarist system was not doomed by 1914.
- In the morning I warmed myself while sitting on the greenhouse roof.
- I will preserve the principle of Autocracy as firmly and unflinchingly as my late father.
- Rioting and disturbances in the capitals and in many localities of Our Empire fill Our heart with great and heavy grief. The well-being of the Russian Sovereign is inseparable from the national well-being; and the national sorrow is His sorrow.
- I shall never, under any circumstances, agree to a representative form of government because I consider it harmful to the people whom God has entrusted to my care.
- "That fat Rodzianko has again sent me some nonsense to which I will not even reply." (Nicholas II, responding to Rodzianko in February 1917).
- As long as I live, I will never trust that man (Witte) again with the smallest thing. I had quite enough with last year's experiment. It is still like a nightmare to me.
- "He is just a good, religious, simple-minded Russian. When in trouble or assailed by doubts I like to have a talk with him, and invariably feel at peace with myself afterwards." (Nicholas II on Rasputin).
- Our Friend's [Rasputin's] opinions of people are sometimes very strange, as you know yourself; therefore one must be careful.
- Those who believe they can share in government dream senseless dreams.
- The Japanese are infidels. The might of Holy Russia will crush them.
- I don't know the price of things; I have never had reason to pay for anything myself.
- Alexei took his first bath since Tobolsk: his knee is getting better, but he still cannot straighten it completely. The weather is warm and pleasant. We have absolutely no news from the outside.
- She [Queen Victoria] is marvelously kind and amiable to us, and so delighted to see our little daughter.
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