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History is the revelation of Providence.

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
Revelation
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God
History

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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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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.
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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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In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
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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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Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
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The unspoken word never does harm.
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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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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
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Liberty is a principle its community is its security exclusiveness is its doom.
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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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My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.
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It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.
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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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Bravery is often too sharp a spur.
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In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.
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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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Judgment of the people is often wiser than the wisest men.
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The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
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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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