16 quotes found
“History is the revelation of providence.”
“It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.”
“Neutrality as a lasting principle is an evidence of weakness.”
“In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.”
“The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.”
“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 dep...”
“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.”
“The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.”
“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...”
“I am a man of peace God knows how I love peace but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.”
“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.”
“The spirit of our age is Democracy. All for the people, and all by the people. Nothing about the people without the people… My nation will rise, called to resurrection by the eternal principles of ...”
“For the first time after a long period we meet with a truly revolutionary figure, a man who in the name of his people dares to accept the challenge of a desperate struggle, who for his nation is Da...”
