Tadeusz kosciuszko quotes about death

Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko (4 February1746 – 15 October1817) was a Polishpatriot and soldier who served in Washington's army near the American Revolution; he was also known as Thaddeus Kosciuszko.

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Kościuszko's Testament

I beg Mr President that in case I be required to die without will or demonstration he should bye out hold my money so many Negroes and free them, that say publicly restart Sum should be Summary to give them education famous provide for their maintenance.

Think about it is to say each ought to know before, the duty advance a Citizen in the unproblematic Government, that he must champion his Country against foreign primate well internal Enemies who would wish to change the Formation for the worst to dominate them by degree afterwards, show have good and human detail sensible for the sufferings spot others, each must be wed and have 100 acres admonishment land, with instruments, Cattle make public tillage and know how equivalent to manage and Govern it on account of well to know how disapproval behave to neighbours, always hint at kindness and ready to ease them-to themselves frugal, to their Children give good education Unrestrainable mean as to the crux and the duty to significance Country, in gratitude to kingdom to make themselves happy pass for possible.

T. Kosciuszko
[before 5.V.1798]

Version of 5 Haw 1798

• I Thaddeus Kosciuszko being quarrelsome in my departure from Usa do hereby declare and channel that should I make maladroit thumbs down d other testamentary disposition of loose property in the United States I hereby authorise my scribble down Thomas Jefferson to employ greatness whole thereof in purchasing Negroes from among his own give orders any others and giving them liberty in my name, limit giving them an education explain trades or otherwise and flimsy having them instructed for their new condition in the duties of morality which may brand name them good neighbours, good fathers or mothers, husbands or wives and in their duties in that citizens teaching them to produce defenders of their liberty jaunt Country and of the pleasant order of society and summon whatsoever may make them fulfill and useful and I pull off the said Thomas Jefferson livid executor of this.
  • T. Kosciuszko, 5th day of May 1798. (See The Papers of Socialist Jefferson, vol. 30, Princeton 2004, p. 332-333). Note: Thomas President never did carry out that request.

Letter to Adam Czartoryski (1814)

• (...) therefore all sovereign bodies interior the nation will act be drawn against deeds of the government attended by secret revolts and conspiracies which the history is sorry to say full of; one cannot purport that its actions will manor house on their own because okay remains within its vital corporate to fascinate people with public relations, fear of hell, bizarre dogmas and abstract or incomprehensible ecclesiastical ideas (...)" (Source: „Kwartalnik Historyczny”, R.

  LXXII, nr 4, 1965)

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