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It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.

Lajos Kossuth

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Lajos Kossuth
Age: 87 †
Born: 1806
Born: April 27
Died: 1894
Died: March 20
Economist
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Louis Kossuth
Kossuth Lajos
Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva
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The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
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History is the revelation of Providence.
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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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Bravery is often too sharp a spur.
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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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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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I consider that it is on instruction and education that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally rests.
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Judgment of the people is often wiser than the wisest men.
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In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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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.
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Light has spread, and even bayonets think.
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Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.
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It is well to be independent also well not to be neutral.
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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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Liberty is a principle its community is its security exclusiveness is its doom.
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