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Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva (Hungarian: [ˈlɒjoʃ ˈkoʃut], Slovak: Ľudovít Košút, archaically English: Louis Kossuth) 19 September 1802 – 20 March 1894) was a Hungarian lawyer, journalist, politician, statesman and Governor-President of the Kingdom of Hungary during the revolution of 1848–49.

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

Believe, Broken Heart, Confidence, Hungary

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

Government, Aggravation, People, United, Thank

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

Draws, Management, Radical Change, Time, World

Bravery is often too sharp a spur.

Bravery, Sharp, Spur, Spurs

I am a straightforward man.

Men, Straightforward, Man

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.

Father, Light, Sky, Wherever, Cast

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.

Ambition, Men, Moral, Man, Napoleon, Labour

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.

Country, Struggle, Night, Roman, Heat, Gentlemen

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.

Austria, House, Independence, Pursued, Unaltered, Years

Judgment of the people is often wiser than the wisest men.

Men, Wisest Man, People, Wiser

To know a people's character, we must see it at its homes, and look chiefly to the humbler abodes where that portion of the people dwells which makes the broad basis of the national prosperity.

Character, Home, Humbler, National, People, Portion

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.

Fate, Europe, America, Southern, Motives

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

Earth, Accepting, Position, Accept, Power

Fear must rule in a despotism.

Despotism, Fear, Rule

Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.

Growth, Independence, Let, Monument, Prosperity, United States

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.

Country, Direction, Fall, Military, Undertaken

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.

Apt, Europe, Obtain, Political Revolution, Three, Years

The unspoken word never does harm.

Silence, Doe, Unspoken Words, Unspoken, Word, Harm

It is well to be independent also well not to be neutral.

Independent, Neutral, Neutrality, Wells

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.

Taken, Tyrants, Humanity, Despots, Allow

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