Marquis de Lafayette quotes
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“When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.”
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“Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.”
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“If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.”
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“In the American colonies, the main problem of liberty has been solved, demonstrated and practiced in such a manner as not to leave much to be said by European institutions.”
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“Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.”
-- Marquis de LafayetteSource : "French Contributions to America". Book by Edward Fecteau, 1945.
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“All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love.”
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“True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.”
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“Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.”
-- Marquis de LafayetteSource : "Martin's History of France : The Decline of the French Monarchy" by Henri Martin, Vol. II, (p. 418), 1866.
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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.”
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“I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.”
-- Marquis de LafayetteSource : "George Washington's Generals and Opponents: Their Exploits and Leadership" by George Athan Billias, (p. 219), 1994.
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“In my idea General Washington is the greatest man; for I look upon him as the most virtuous.”
-- Marquis de LafayetteSource : "Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette" by Jules Germain Cloquet, (Vol. I, p. 24), 1836.
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