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Lajos Kossuth

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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.


— Lajos Kossuth


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


— Lajos Kossuth


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The unspoken word never does harm.


— Lajos Kossuth


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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


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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.


— Lajos Kossuth


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I am a straightforward man.


— Lajos Kossuth


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


— Lajos Kossuth


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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.


— Lajos Kossuth


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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.


— Lajos Kossuth


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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


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Kossuth protested in a public manner and officials saw that as a blatant disregard for the neutral position of the United States. A new paper was started to which was given the name of Kossuth Hirlapja so that from the first it was Kossuth rather than the Palatine or prime minister Batthyány whose name was in the minds of the people associated with the new government. In November 1848 Emperor Ferdinand abdicated in favour of Franz Joseph.

Kossuth's bronze bust can be found in the United States Capitol with the inscription: "Father of Hungarian Democracy Hungarian Statesman Freedom Fighter 1848–1849". Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva (Hungarian: [ˈlɒjoʃ ˈkoʃuːt] archaically English: Louis Kossuth; Ľudovít Košút in Slovak; 19 September 1802 – 20 March 1894) was a Hungarian lawyer journalist politician and Regent-President of the Kingdom of Hungary during the revolution of 1848–49.

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