Colonel Ferenc Koszorus, though neither a politician nor a scientist, but a simple patriot who saved Budapest’s Jewish community in 1944, wrote in his memoirs: “The root of our troubles is found in the moments when people dared to proclaim the denial of God. And those troubles turned into corruption and into humanity’s ruin when the denial of God was institutionalized.”
The celebration of evil, the cynical mocking of good — these are merely the consequences of our age. An age that fancies itself the most advanced in terms of information and communication, yet whose everyday discourse has never been more primitive. Sadly — echoing the darkest memories of our history — today too there are those who dress up evil as good, present empty promises as plans, justify lies retroactively as truth, and who cannot be accused of treason only because, apart from their surname, nothing else suggests Hungary is truly their homeland.
Yet even in this so-called post-truth era, the task of both politician and scientist remains the same: to stand for truth and for the homeland. To affirm that knowledge is God’s gift; that He set boundaries for the nations; that He created us man and woman; and that peace is good.
If we walk this path — if we look simultaneously to our kings and our “Martians,” to King Saint Stephen of Hungary and to Katalin Kariko — then not only our homeland, but the world itself will shine in glory. And for Hungary, dozens more Nobel laureates and at least another thousand years await!
The Center for Fundamental Rights is proud to be part of this project. Congratulations to the organizers. God bless America, God bless Hungary!
(This is an edited version of the speech by Miklos Szantho, delivered on August 19, 2025, in Budapest at the opening of the interactive exhibition “Martians – Hungarian Scientists and Nobel Laureates.”)
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