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Tadeusz Kościuszko
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“Feeling deeply that servitude is contrary to natural law and prosperity of nations I hereby declare that I abolish it entirely and forever in my estate of Siechnowicze.”
Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746–1817) said by 1817 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(...) 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 (...)" (Source: „Kwartalnik Historyczny”, R. LXXII, nr 4, 1965)”
Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746–1817) said by 1817 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And Freedom shrieked — as Kosciuszko fell!”
Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746–1817) said by 1817 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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.”
Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746–1817) first seen 1798 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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.