The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.

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.

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

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.

Judgment of the people is often wiser than the wisest men.

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.