Marquis De Lafayette Quotes
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Marquis De Lafayette Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
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.
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.
My heart has always been truly convinced that in serving the cause of America, I am fighting for the interests of France.