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Lajos Kossuth

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


— Lajos Kossuth


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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


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


— Lajos Kossuth


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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


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My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.


— Lajos Kossuth


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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.


— Lajos Kossuth


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


— Lajos Kossuth


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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.


— Lajos Kossuth


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


— Lajos Kossuth


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


— 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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