I am a man of peace, God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.

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

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.

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

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.

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.

I am a straightforward man.