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Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette on Freedom

1757–1834 France

← All quotes by Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

3 quotes

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)

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

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