Frases de Tadeusz Kościuszko

Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko fue un ingeniero y líder militar polaco que se convirtió en héroe nacional en Polonia, Bielorrusia y en los Estados Unidos, donde participó en la guerra de Independencia. Es considerado uno de los más brillantes generales de Polonia y Lituania.

En 1794 dirigió una fallida insurrección para liberar Polonia y Lituania de la influencia del Imperio ruso y el Reino de Prusia después de la Segunda Partición de Polonia en 1793.

El monte más alto de Australia, el monte Kosciuszko, lleva su nombre en su honor. Wikipedia

✵ 12. febrero 1746 – 15. octubre 1817

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Tadeusz Kościuszko: Frases en inglés

“And Freedom shrieked - as Kosciuszko fell!”

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Thomas Campbell, The Pleasures of Hope http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-pleasures-of-hope-excerpt/.
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“(…) therefore all sovereign bodies within the nation will act against deeds of the government accompanied by secret revolts and conspiracies which the history is unfortunately full of; one cannot expect that its actions will change on their own because it remains within its vital interest to fascinate people with lies, fear of hell, bizarre dogmas and abstract or incomprehensible theological ideas (…)”

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Letter to Adam Czartoryski (1814)
Fuente: „Kwartalnik Historyczny”, R. LXXII, nr 4, 1965

“I Thaddeus Kosciuszko being just in my departure from America do hereby declare and direct that should I make no other testamentary disposition of my property in the United States I hereby authorise my friend Thomas Jefferson to employ the whole thereof in purchasing Negroes from among his own or any others and giving them liberty in my name, in giving them an education in trades or otherwise and in having them instructed for their new condition in the duties of morality which may make them good neighbours, good fathers or mothers, husbands or wives and in their duties as citizens teaching them to be defenders of their liberty and Country and of the good order of society and in whatsoever may make them happy and useful and I make the said Thomas Jefferson my executor of this.”

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T. Kosciuszko, 5th day of May 1798. (See The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 30, Princeton 2004, p. 332-333). Note: Thomas Jefferson never did carry out this request.
Version of 5 May 1798