Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

The brave are parsimonious of threats.

You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.

The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.

The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.

History is the revelation of Providence.

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.