Lajos Kossuth famous quotes

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

#Weakness #Principles #Neutrality

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
-- Lajos Kossuth

#Socialism #Communism

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

#Country #Queens #Government

I am a straightforward man.
-- Lajos Kossuth

#Men #Straightforward

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

#Ambition #Men #Moral

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

#Past #Profit #Exile

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

#Ambition #Nominations

The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
-- Lajos Kossuth

#Europe #Evil #Principles

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
-- Lajos Kossuth

#Humble #Calumny #Capacity

You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.
-- Lajos Kossuth

#Earth #Accepting #Position

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 #Military #Fall

Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: "Soldier, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries;- - those who love freedom and their country may follow me." That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life.
-- Lajos Kossuth

#Country #Struggle #Night

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

#Years #Europe #Political

It is well to be independent also well not to be neutral.
-- Lajos Kossuth

#Independent #Neutrality #Wells

I know that there is one God in heaven, the Father of all humanity, and heaven is therefore one. I know that there is one sun in the sky, which gives light to all the world. As there is unity in God, and unity in the light, so is there unity in the principles of freedom. Wherever it is broken, wherever a shadow is cast upon the sunny rays of the sun of liberty, there is always danger of free principles everywhere in the world.
-- Lajos Kossuth

#Father #Light #Sky

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

#Years #House #Independence

The unspoken word never does harm.
-- Lajos Kossuth

#Silence #Doe #Unspoken Words

Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.
-- Lajos Kossuth

#Taken #Tyrants #Humanity

The cause of freedom is identified with the destinies of humanity, and in whatever part of the world it gains ground by and by, it will be a common gain to all those who desire it.
-- Lajos Kossuth

#Destiny #Humanity #Desire

Judgment of the people is often wiser than the wisest men.
-- Lajos Kossuth

#Men #People #Wiser

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 #Independence #Dynasty

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

#Causes #Force

The era of Christianity peace, brotherhood, the Golden Rule as applied to governmental matters is. yet to come, and when it comes, then, and then only, will the future of nations be sure.
-- Lajos Kossuth

#Brotherhood #Matter #Golden

I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.
-- Lajos Kossuth

#Broken Heart #Believe #Hungary

Now that I am a deputy, I will cease to be an agitator.
-- Lajos Kossuth

#Deputies

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

#Fate #Men #Balance

Humility is the part of wisdom, and is most becoming in men. But let no one discourage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness.
-- Lajos Kossuth

#Wisdom #Humility #Men

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
-- Lajos Kossuth

#World #Radical Change #Management

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

#Fate #Europe #America

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

#Government #Aggravation #People

It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.
-- Lajos Kossuth

#Hero #Difficulty

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

#New York #Europe #Ties

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

#Kings #Order #Issues