„… said the not entirely suppressed old Ivan, rearing his head from inside the new one, although without much confidence.“

— Mikhail Bulgakov

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„I am confident that the suppression of the Kazan Czechs and White Guards, and likewise of the bloodsucking kulaks who support them, will be a model of mercilessness.“
— Vladimir Lenin
„Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.“
— Catherine the Great