The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble. Lajos Kossuth Read Quote
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. Lajos Kossuth Read Quote
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. Lajos Kossuth Read Quote
You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position. Lajos Kossuth Read Quote
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. Lajos Kossuth Read Quote
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. Lajos Kossuth Read Quote
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. Lajos Kossuth Read Quote
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. Lajos Kossuth Read Quote
I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation. Lajos Kossuth Read Quote