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The Spaniards are slow in their motions but strong in their attachments.

If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months.

The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.

The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.

All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love.

Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.

Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.

I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.

Charleston is one of the best built, handsomest, and most agreeable cities that I have ever seen.

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors to theirs.

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.

I became obnoxious to the Jacobins because I reprobated their aristocracy, which aimed at usurping all legitimate authority.

In my idea General Washington is the greatest man; for I look upon him as the most virtuous.

Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.

The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages.

Nothing hurts so much the interest and reputation of America as to hear of their intestine quarrels.

Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

My heart has always been truly convinced that in serving the cause of America, I am fighting for the interests of France.

Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.

It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.