Hungary Quotes
Chvalkovsky had just returned from Berlin where he had met with Hitler and German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop. He related the meeting to the French Ambassador who reported it to the French Foreign Minister by letter.
Some people think that this quotation was partially copied from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. However, he gave this speech more than a decade earlier. Lincoln might have been familiar with it. His statue is in the U. S. Capitol.
Nagy was executed 2 years later by the Russian controlled Hungarian government after the revolution was put down.
Statement when he refused the Austro Hungarian offer to reclaim his lands, wealth, and titles if he would cease his revolutionary efforts. Instead he went into exile in Poland, France and finally Turkey causing the authorities countless anxieties and becoming a legend among the Hungarian people who revere him to this day. His house in exile is still almost a historical shrine.
It is quite extraordinary how many world class scientists were born and brought up in Hungary. If one normalized the Nobel Prize winners per 10 million citizens, Hungary has more Nobel Laureates than any other country including the United States, England, Germany or France. Ironically, most of them were born and brought up in Hungary, but did most of their scientific work in another country—typically the 4 mentioned above.
This is one of the best examples of the Mongol Terror Tactics. They had a completely mobile fighting force. They could evade any large army and attack fixed towns and villages, while opponents could not defend all the locations without enormous expense. The calculus was often that it was cheaper to pay the Mongols tribute than it was to even beat them in the field. In this case, the Hungarians settled and a Mongol satellite group—the Cumans (Western Kipchaks)—moved into Hungary and have been a minority there ever since.
