He knew, also, that to take up the matter through the regular diplomatic channels would be a process too infinitely slow to suit the situation.
— from Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure by Jackson Gregory

Haynau himself was offered in reward a large landed property by the government; he did not accept it, but preferred a comparatively small sum of money, not amounting to one-tenth of the value of the offered land, and he bought from a private individual a landed property, for the money, because that, being a private transaction, is sure to stand: whereas in the future of the Austrian government in Hungary not even its Haynaus have confidence.
— from Select Speeches of Kossuth by Lajos Kossuth