64 Quotes by Lajos Kossuth

I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.

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.

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

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.

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.

I am a republican. I have avowed it openly in monarchical but free England; and am happy to state that I have lost nothing by this avowal there.

But the Hungarian nation, although taken by surprise, unarmed and unprepared, did not abandon its future prospects in any agony of despair.

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.

Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.