• The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.

    Wilhelm II: The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.
    "Sir Arthur Nicolson, Bart., First Lord Carnock: A Study in the Old Diplomacy". Book by Harold Nicolson, p. 214, 1930.