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.

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

The cause of freedom is identified with the destinies of humanity, and in whatever part of the world it gains ground by and by, it will be a common gain to all those who desire it.

The unspoken word never does harm.

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

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.

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.