Marquis de Lafayette Quotes

French - Revolutionary | September 6, 1757 - May 20, 1834

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

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

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Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the Continental Union. Depend upon it: there lies the danger for America. This last stroke is wanting, and unless the states be strongly bound to each other, we have to fear from British and, indeed, from European politics.

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Though my conduct on the 10th of August 1792 was the act of my life of which I have most reason to be proud, I will here merely do homage to the worthy martyrs of the national sovereignty and the sworn laws, who, while they supported constitutional royalty, manifested the highest degree of republican virtue.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.

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Any commands which Congress may have for me shall be cheerfully executed by one of their earliest soldiers, whose happiness it is to think that, at a less smiling moment, he had the honor to be adopted by America, and whose blood, exertions, and affections will in her good times, as they have been in her worst, be entirely at her service.

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