Hungarian - Lawyer | September 19, 1802 - March 20, 1894
Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
Lajos Kossuth
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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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.
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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.
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In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
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The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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