Marquis de Lafayette famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Marquis de Lafayette

#Government #Rights #People
Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.
-- Marquis de Lafayette

#Rights #Sacred #Duty
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.
-- Marquis de Lafayette

#Religious #Fall #Hands
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.
-- Marquis de Lafayette

#Liberty #Problem #Institutions
Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
-- Marquis de Lafayette

#Country #Humanity #Liberty
All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love.
-- Marquis de Lafayette

#Romantic Love #Justify
True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.
-- Marquis de Lafayette

#Rights #People #Natural
Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.
-- Marquis de Lafayette

#Humanity #Liberty #Suits
If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months.
-- Marquis de Lafayette

#Army #America #Revolution
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 Lafayette

#Ideas #Common Sense #Trying
In my idea General Washington is the greatest man; for I look upon him as the most virtuous.
-- Marquis de Lafayette

#Men #Ideas #Looks

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