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Bravery is often too sharp a spur.

Lajos Kossuth

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Lajos Kossuth
Age: 87 †
Born: 1806
Born: April 27
Died: 1894
Died: March 20
Economist
Journalist
Lawyer
Politician
Louis Kossuth
Kossuth Lajos
Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva
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Bravery
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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
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Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
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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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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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In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
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The unspoken word never does harm.
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History is the revelation of Providence.
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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.
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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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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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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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Argument is not always truth.
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