“ No settlement of the struggle which leaves the heroic Bohemian people subject to the vengeance of the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns can be considered for a moment. It would be a betrayal, not only of the principles for which we are waging war, but of the liberties of the human race. ”

“ Each little bands of Czechs or Slovaks is watched by superior numbers of supposedly unfriendly fellow subjects, commanded by unsympathetic despots, and liable to extermination at any moment by weapons against which it is helpless. ”

“ There are no longer any Bohemian regiments. It is doubtful if there are any Bohemian battalions. Czech and Slovak soldiers are scattered in small groups among the troops of other races, so that they form a minority in the battalions of Poles, Ruthenes, Roumanians, Croats, Serbs, Germans, Magyars and other races under the Hapsburg crown. ”