Saturday, May 17, 2014

I do not know any other unfortunate plague... (Maria Theresa, Austrian Empress)

“I do not know any other unfortunate plague domestically as this race, which impoverishes the people by cunning, usury, lending money and handling cases repulsive to honest people. Therefore, if possible, they will be displaced and uprooted from here.” (Maria Theresa, Austrian Empress – the last of the House of Habsburg, 1717 – 1780)

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