To know a people's character, ...

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.
 Lajos Kossuth

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The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
 Lajos Kossuth
You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.
 Lajos Kossuth
Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.
 Lajos Kossuth