If Russia comes to liberate, she will be received with great sympathy; but if she comes to rule, she will find many enemies. - Lyuben Karavelov

Don't raise your head so high holy Europe, don't be so proud of your civilization and your Christianity when you don't even have a pure heart or a clear conscience.

The year 1848 awakened all the European nations that were half-dead and half-asleep, as well as us, the Bulgarians. From that moment on, the Bulgarians rose up and their future lit up with eye-pleasing and joyous rays, and a secretive or, to put it plainly, instinctive feeling told them that it was time to free themselves from Turkish and Greek tyranny.

Revolution, revolution, and only revolution is our salvation.