• 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.

    Lajos Kossuth: 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.
    Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.12