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Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk , sometimes anglicised to Thomas Masaryk , was a Czech politician, statesman, sociologist and philosopher.

After trying to reform the Austro-Hungarian monarchy into a federal state, with the help of the Allied Powers, he eventually succeeded in gaining Czechoslovak independence as a republic after World War I. He both founded and was the first President of Czechoslovakia and so is called the "President Liberator".

✵ 7. March 1850 – 14. September 1937  •  Other names Tomáš G. Masaryk, Tomáš Garrique Masaryk, T. G. Masaryk
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Works

The Spirit of Russia
The Spirit of Russia
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
The Religious Conditions in Czechoslovakia
The Spirit of Russia
The Spirit of Russia
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
The Religious Conditions in Czechoslovakia
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Famous Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Quotes

“So, I am free. Fine.”

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

“Dictators always look good until the last minutes.”

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

“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.”

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

“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.”

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

“A great many people really care very little for their own compatriots, but they hate anything foreign.”

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk The Spirit of Russia

The Spirit of Russia
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“Jesus, not Cæsar, I repeat,—this is the meaning of our history and democracy.”

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk The Religious Conditions in Czechoslovakia

The Religious Conditions in Czechoslovakia

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“Wherever the trout are, it's beautiful.”

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

“Unquestionably society ought to be so organised as to render self-sacrifice superfluous, for as long as men exist who are ready and willing to make sacrifices, so long will egoists take advantage of these sacrifices.”

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk The Spirit of Russia

The Spirit of Russia
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Eden
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“Theology is to-day recognised to be the instrument of myth, philosophy to be the instrument of science.”

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk The Spirit of Russia

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