Lafayette Quotes
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The Spaniards are slow in their motions but strong in their attachments.
— Marquis De Lafayette
I think Lafayette wants to rap in French now. I have to go learn some French.Damn it, Lafayette — Lin-Manuel Miranda
158 Lewis Avenue between Lafayette and Van Buren, that was back durin days of hangin' on my bed-stuy block
— Big Daddy Kane
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
— Cesare Pavese
Silicon Bayou - aka Lafayette, LA - is the best kept secret reservoir of innovation mojo in America
— Todd Park
There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. - MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
— Michelle Moran
Lafayette took umbrage - just gobs and gobs of umbrage - at the patriots' vilification of his countrymen for leaving Newport.
— Sarah Vowell
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.
— Marquis De Lafayette
Charleston is one of the best built, handsomest, and most agreeable cities that I have ever seen.
— Marquis De Lafayette
I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.
— Marquis De Lafayette
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.
— Marquis De Lafayette
Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.
— Marquis De Lafayette
Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.
— Marquis De Lafayette
All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love.
— Marquis De Lafayette
The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.
— Marquis De Lafayette
The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society.
— Marquis De Lafayette
I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors to theirs.
— Marquis De Lafayette
I became obnoxious to the Jacobins because I reprobated their aristocracy, which aimed at usurping all legitimate authority.
— Marquis De Lafayette
If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months.
— Marquis De Lafayette
In my idea General Washington is the greatest man; for I look upon him as the most virtuous.
— Marquis De Lafayette
Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.
— Marquis De Lafayette
The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages.
— Marquis De Lafayette
Nothing hurts so much the interest and reputation of America as to hear of their intestine quarrels.
— Marquis De Lafayette
Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.
— Marquis De Lafayette
My heart has always been truly convinced that in serving the cause of America, I am fighting for the interests of France.
— Marquis De Lafayette
Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.
— Marquis De Lafayette
It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.
— Marquis De Lafayette
Lafayette saw himself as the protector of royalty; they [the king and his family] considered him its gaoler.
— William Doyle
Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
— Marquis De Lafayette
Washington trusted Lafayette, but he trusted no foreign power, even America's ally. The
— David A. Clary
