Frases de Tadeusz Kościuszko

Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko, também conhecido como Tadeu Kosciusko em português foi um herói nacional da Polônia, general e líder da revolta contra o Império Russo em 1794, a qual recebeu seu nome. Também lutou na Guerra da Independência dos Estados Unidos, participando como coronel no Exército Continental ao lado de George Washington.

Em homenagem a Tadeusz Kościuszko, diversas localidades ao redor do mundo foram batizadas com seu nome. No Brasil, foi homenageado em logradouros nas cidades do Rio de Janeiro, de Porto Alegre, e de Duque de Caxias .

Também a montanha mais alta da Austrália, o Monte Kosciuszko, tem o seu nome. Wikipedia

✵ 12. Fevereiro 1746 – 15. Outubro 1817

Tadeusz Kościuszko: 3 citações 0 Curtidas

Tadeusz Kościuszko: Frases em inglês

“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)
Fonte: „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