Lajos Kossuth

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Born Sunday 19 September 1802, died Tuesday 20 March 1894

Professions: Journalist, Lawyer, Politician

Nationality: Hungarian

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.

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I am a straightforward man.

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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.

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

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Upon this the Hungarian ministers resigned, but the names submitted by the president of the council, at the demand of the king, were not approved of for successors.

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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.

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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.

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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 deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.

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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

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My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.

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