“We can't run a modern war, sir. We're not fighting Napoleon this...” – Nicholas & Alexandra ... Movie Quotes Database

[Begging the Tsar to stay out of World War One]

We can't run a modern war, sir. We're not fighting Napoleon this time! Germany has ten miles of railway to every one of ours and they have a hundred factories for every one of ours. All we have is men! We'll be slaughtered like flies!

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So, you would like to be an opera singer? Yes, you have the chest for it. You must understand that you are free to say whatever you like. You must also understand that I am free to shoot you for saying it. I speak, nobody pays attention. I write, nobody reads it. I am out of style, nobody is wearing me this season. I mean, three hundred years of Romanovs. What is not to say there will not be 300 more?