The Peasant Prince Quotes

“Tyranny anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.”
― Alex Storozynski, The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution

“One must always fear the ambition of a president who, by using the influence of money and patronage, might easily want to change the state of things by attaching these regular corps to himself,” Kosciuszko wrote. “Examples are not rare, and let us admit frankly a sad and hard truth; nearly all men can be corrupted; we love so passionately to be distinguished from others that we seize upon the slightest favor of fortune to raise ourselves above them.”
― Alex Storozynski, The Peasant Prince: Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution