Lajos Kossuth Quotes

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
Lajos Kossuth

Weakness, Principle, Evidence

And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.
Lajos Kossuth

Cannot, Balance, Fate

In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.
Lajos Kossuth

Government, May, Different

Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.
Lajos Kossuth

Men, Freedom, Political

The unspoken word never does harm.
Lajos Kossuth

Word, Harm, Unspoken

Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.
Lajos Kossuth

Political, America, Fate

Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
Lajos Kossuth

War, Freedom, Alone

I am a straightforward man.
Lajos Kossuth

I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.
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Confidence, Broken, Nor

I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.
Lajos Kossuth

Happy, Humble, Enjoy

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
Lajos Kossuth

Understand, Socialism, Communism

I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.
Lajos Kossuth

Honest, Questions, Principles

I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
Lajos Kossuth

Government, Congress, United

I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.
Lajos Kossuth

Long, Pretty, Interest

I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
Lajos Kossuth

Freedom, Become, Ambition

If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
Lajos Kossuth

Country, Guilty, Conscience

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
Lajos Kossuth

Future, Past, Tried

It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself.
Lajos Kossuth

Europe, York, Connected

My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.
Lajos Kossuth

Ambition, Governor, Gratify

Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.
Lajos Kossuth

Future, Forward, Political

Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator.
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The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.
Lajos Kossuth

Freedom, Long, Country

The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.
Lajos Kossuth

King, Issue, Obedience

The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.
Lajos Kossuth

State, Three, House

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
Lajos Kossuth

Power, Alone, Often

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Biography

Nationality: Hungarian

Type: Lawyer

Born: September 19, 1802

Died: March 20, 1894

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