Casimir Pulaski Quotes

Our country was founded on protest. Otherwise, we would still be a colony of England.

Our country was founded on protest. If it was just shut up and honor your country no matter what, we'd still be flying the Union Jack. That's not what our founding fathers did. They didn't like what was going on, and they broke away and formed their own country.

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

[American colonists] had no common national tradition except that against which they were revolting.

For as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honors that we are fighting, but from freedom—for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.

Union or death!

Was, then, the American Revolution effected, was the American Confederacy formed, was the precious blood of thousands spilt, and the hard-earned substance of millions lavished, not that the people of America should enjoy peace, liberty, and safety, but that the government of the individual States, that particular municipal establishments, might enjoy a certain extent of power, and be arrayed with certain dignities and attributes of sovereignty?

If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them.

You have no enemy but England…. Although we fought once and lost, it is only a lesson for the second time…. Every vote you give now is as good as the crack of a rifle in proclaiming your desire for freedom.

The American revolution was a struggle for home rule but also for who should rule at home.

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

When liberty returns, I will return.

My grand affair appears settled, for America is certain of her independence, humanity has gained her cause, and liberty will never be without a place of refuge.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.

Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.

One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for Independence.

Whenever an American requests to see me I comply, because I respect a people who acquired their freedom by firmness without excess.

Liberty Dearer Than Union

The independence of America is one of the principle titles of glory to France.