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I reject it when someone says
that we can learn democracy because
we have no tradition. Who does?
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France? Who does?
Which country? Spain?
Scandinavia? Where is it?
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Village communities?
Urban communities? They're everywhere.
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Religious autonomy?
It's everywhere. But a universal,
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national-thinking local government,
with a constitutional view can be
proudly declared to be
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represented in Hungary.
Now... once again,
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when the empires break up,
these nations revive many of
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their reflexes, of many centuries,
many decades of internal compulsions
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when they go their separate ways
and they now express their own thoughts.
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We cannot resent the great powers
for thinking it is much more convenient
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to know and negotiate with these
restless little nations within realms of empires.
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The minority issue,
the issue of nationality,
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the national minority
issue and other minority issues,
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problems all stem from this in this region.
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This nation cannot afford
either externally or internally,
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or from the point of view
of its position in the world,
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to expose itself to a situation
where extremes are integrated into
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extremes, to allow that to develop would be fateful.
So the Hungarian multi-party system,
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Hungarian dualism, can only really
prevail in Parliament with political
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power extending from the centre-right
to centre left,
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and not to allow the two extremes
to develop but to be educated
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with our national responsibility.
We cannot give a voice, and those who
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tell us that there is such a thing,
that there lies great power
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in it and those who promote it are
just as guilty as those in this
nation who, for decades, wanted to
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install the image of the 'last henchman’,
the sinful nation, in the consciousness of
Hungarians after World War II.
