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"I came back to Ukraine to serve her with my mind, my hand and my heart."
-Ivan Mazepa Hetman of Ukraine 1687-1709


"My beautiful country, so rich and resplendent! Who has not tormented you?"
-Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian poet



"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't."
-Gen. George S. Patton


"Get off my lawn."
-Walt Kowalski from Gran Torino


"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
-Ephesians 6:12


"I only regret that I have but one life to give my country."
-Nathan Hale


"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
-Emiliano Zapata


"'Give me Liberty, or give me Death!"
-Patrick Henry


''Life's tough......it's even tougher if you're stupid.''
-John Wayne


"A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal."
-Proverbs 12:10




"A man must know his destiny. If he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder. If he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it."
-Gen. George S. Patton


"The technique of infamy is to invent two lies and to get people arguing heatedly over which one is true."
-Ezra Pound



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Political disunity among the Ukrainian population, more than any other consideration, prevented Hetman Ivan Mazepa from creating a strong Ukrainian state.

While Hetman Mazepa was striving to establish Ukrainian sovereignity, there were some Ukrainians who strove to keep Ukraine under Russian domination. Simultaneously, others desired to place Ukraine under Poland.

Writing his "Duma" or folk epic, in verse, over three centuries ago, Hetman Mazepa explicitly tried to point out the importance of unity in thought and action if Ukraine were to become (and remain) a free nation.

The Duma of Hetman Mazepa

While all for peace sincerely preach,
Not all in one direction reach.
Some right, and some left do range,
Yet all are brothers, how very strange.
There is no love, nor does harmony rank
Since we quenched our thirst at Zhovti's bank.*
Through disagreement none are saved,
By our own endeavor have we become enslaved.
Aye, brothers, it's time to see
that we all cannot masters be!
Not all are graced with knowledge wide
Enough to over all preside.
Glance at a vessel if you but will,
You'll see many voyagers, and still
The master has the ruling hand,
The entire ship is at his command.

Even a bee boasts a mother
Whom it obeys, and no other.
Have mercy God, for Ukraine,
Who's sons are scattered o'er the plain.
Some still are mired in pagan days
Beseeching others to follow their hasty ways:
"Our Motherland, to defend, to cherish!
Let us not permit her to perish!"

Another the Poles for silver serves,
The while he grievingly observes:
"Aged Mother, if thou but will,
Tell why thou art so deathly ill!"
Wantonly have you been torn asunder
When to the Dnieper, the Turks obtained as plunder.
All your forts to make you ail,
So that in the end your health would fail.

A third gives Moscow loquacious praise
serving her faithfully in diverse ways.
Another the Mother does berate
And damn his own unhappy fate:
"Twere best not to have sampled life,
Than to live in the midst of all this strife.
From all sides on us they turn
With fire and sword they ruin and burn."
All are wanting in good will,
No proper civility can Thou instill.
"Mouzhik" is the name they have applied
While bringing subjection, like a tide.
Why didst Thou not teach Thy sons to obey?
Why from Thy side did Thou let them stray!
'Twould have been best if in unity
We had tried to reckon with adversity.

Alone, I am bound to fail,
The most I can do is rail:
"Hey, Gentlemen, Generals, pray
Why have you fallen asleep this way?
And you, Sir Colonels, whose hands are clean
Of all politics, no matter the sheen.
Will you not clasp hands and bring
An end to the bitter suffering
Our Mother has so long endured, and lo
Now hurl it down upon the foe.
Recruit the torch to do your labor
Along with the keenest sabre.
Stand by your faith, to the bitter end.
Your liberty too, you must defend.
And immortalize in glory bright
That with our sword we protect our right!"


Translated by Dmitri Horbay. From Ukrainian Weekly Section "Svoboda" Saturday March 22, 1958

*Kozaks won a great victory over the Poles at the river Zhovti Vody in 1648 under Hetman Bohdan Khmelnitsky.