Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette Quotes

1757–1834 France

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), often referred to simply as Lafayette, was a French and American military officer and aristocrat who participated in the American Revolution as a general and served in the Estates General and the subsequent National Constituent Assembly in the early phases of the French Revolution.

France
Military leaders

Also known as: Lafayette, Marquis de LaFayette, Marquis de Lafayette, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette

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Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.

Letter to friends (1780)

Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights.

Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789)

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate, just as national sovereignty is above the secondary agreements of the government.

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.

I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery.

An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas, and the truth of prophecy, has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover, and with the conviction of a geometrician.

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the Romish clergy.

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