[Y]ou must remember that these people, these Turks, are of … - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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[Y]ou must remember that these people, these Turks, are of the race of Genghiz and Tamerlane, that they belong to a religion, of which I would not say a word of disrespect, which has produced high civilisation and morality, but is capable of the most atrocious perversion and corruption of any religion on the face of the globe; and being Mahomedans and being Turks, with their fanaticism thoroughly aroused, they perpetrated these horrors at which Christendom has grown pale.

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

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Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (3 February 1830 – 22 August 1903), styled Lord Robert Cecil before the death of his elder brother in 1865, and Viscount Cranborne from June 1865 until his father died in April 1868, was a three-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, during 1885–1886, 1886–1892 and 1895–1902.

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Alternative Names: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil • Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil • Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury • Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoigne Cecil, Marquis of Salisbury

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