John Hay Quote

Dealing with a government [Tsarist Russia] with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter.


From a 1903 letter to President Roosevelt, John Hay Papers, Library of Congress.


Dealing with a government [Tsarist Russia] with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter.

Dealing with a government [Tsarist Russia] with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter.

Dealing with a government [Tsarist Russia] with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter.

Dealing with a government [Tsarist Russia] with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult and delicate matter.