Ivan the Terrible — "If I do not punish my servants, who will punish them? And if I do not punish the…"

If I do not punish my servants, who will punish them? And if I do not punish them, who will fear me?
Ivan the Terrible — Ivan the Terrible Early Modern · First Tsar of Russia

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Reflecting his brutal philosophy of governance and maintaining power through fear.

Date: c. 1570s

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