Ivan the Terrible:

Better to rule over bones than over traitors.

— Ivan the Terrible Early Modern

First Tsar of Russia

Comment on his executions.

1570s

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"Treason is a disease that must be cut out with a sharp knife."

"The dogs of war are unleashed!"

"I am not a man, I am a Tsar!"

"Let them drown in their own blood!"

"The tears of my enemies are sweeter than wine."

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