Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Slovak politician Tomas Garrigue Masaryk.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was a Czechoslovak politician, statesman, sociologist, and philosopher. Until 1914, he advocated restructuring the Austro-Hungarian Empire into a federal state. With the help of the Allied Powers, Masaryk gained independence for a Czechoslovak Republic as World War I ended in 1918. He co-founded Czechoslovakia together with Milan Rastislav Štefánik and Edvard Beneš and served as its first president.

Wherever the trout are, it's beautiful. — © Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
Wherever the trout are, it's beautiful.
Dictators always look good until the last minutes.
Zionism has gained my full sympathy and I appreciate it much higher than what is called nationalism in modern France. It is a progressive movement, a reawakening, of which I expect a lot for the entire civilization.
As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being
We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has an immense and exceptional value, like the widow's mite. It is a deliberate and discerning love of a nation that appeals to me, not the indiscriminate love that assumes everything to be right because it bears a national label. Love of one's own nation should not entail non-love of other nations. Institutions by themselves are not enough.
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