Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin. (№ 438528)

Do not think, gentlemen, that Russia, which is slowly recovering, can be tinted with the rouge of all sorts of liberties, and it will become healthy. […] We, the Government, we build only scaffolding that facilitates your construction. Our opponents point to these scaffoldings as to an ugly building erected by us, and furiously rush to cut down their foundation. And these forests will inevitably collapse and, perhaps, crush us under their ruins, but let, let this happen when, because of the rubble, it will already be visible, at least in the main outlines, the building of the renewed, free, - free, in the best sense of the word, free from poverty, from ignorance, from lack of rights, - devoted, as one person, to her Sovereign - Russia - and this time, gentlemen, is coming; and it will come, in spite of any revelations, since not only strength is on our side, but truth is also on our side.