We say to you, go forward, progress, you may even unsettle things, that is, things that are antiquated and in need of reform.

But we will keep you, when need be, within necessary limits, and so save you from yourselves, for without us you would set Russia tottering, robbing her of all external decency, while our task is to preserve external decency.

Understand that we are mutually essential to one another.

In England the Whigs and Tories are in the same way mutually essential to one another.

Well, you're Whigs and we're Tories.
That's how I look at it." Andrey Antonovitch rose to positive eloquence.