• 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.

    Lajos Kossuth: 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.
    Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.17