Catherine the Great Quote

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.


c. 1762. As quoted in: Who Said What When (Hippocrene Books, Incorporated, 1991), p. 101


I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.