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Quotes from Oration on Lafayette — John Quincy Adams

1767–1848 United States

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He devoted himself, his life, his fortune, his hereditary honors, his towering ambition, his splendid hopes, all to the cause of liberty.

Oration on Lafayette (1834)

Pronounce him one of the first men of his age, and you have yet not done him justice.

Oration on Lafayette (1834)

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