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."

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

"Anybody who will not agree that a Turk is more inhuman than a mad dog is a Turkophile."

"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."

"The person who wishes to work for the wellbeing of his nation should forget about himself."

"The brotherhood of nations means the death of the tyrants."