Cossack Quotes

Use both bribery and threats to exterminate every Cossack to a man if they set fire to the oil in Guriev. (Vladimir Lenin)
And ruined is the Cossack! He is lost for all the chivalry of the Cossacks! He will see Zaporozhye no more; nor his father's farms, nor the church of God. Ukraine will see no more the bravest of the sons who undertook to defend her. Old Taras will tear the gray hair from his head and curse the day and hour when he begot such a son to shame him. View quote
Nikolai Gogol
Pierrette, like all those who suffer more than they have strength to bear, kept silence.Silence is the only weapon by which such victims can conquer; it baffles the Cossack charges of envy, the savage skirmishings of suspicion; it does at times give victory, crushing and complete, - for what is more complete than silence? it is absolute; it is one of the attributes of infinity. View quote
Honoré de Balzac