You yourself, Leonore, cannot wish it, for then how could you trust my fidelity, my love, if, for your sake, I could be untrue to my native land, my sacred duty.

No, Leonore, my heart is yours, but my brain and life belong to my country.

I came to Vienna to serve it.

The great patriots of Poland sent me here.

'Go to Austria, they said, and serve there the sacred cause of freedom and human dignity.' And I went, and am here to serve it.