Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette > Quotes

“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

“The happiness of America is intimately connected with the happiness of all mankind; she is destined to become the safe and venerable asylum of virtue, of honesty, of tolerance, and quality and of peaceful liberty.”
― Marquis De Lafayette

“Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.”
― Marquis De Lafayette

“All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love”
― Marquis de Lafayette, Memoirs of General Lafayette

“Insurrection is the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensable of duties”
― Marquis de Lafayette

“If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.”
― Marquis De Lafayette

“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.”
― The Marquis De Lafayette

“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

“What safety is there, in a country where Robespierre is a sage, Danton an honest man, and Marat a God?”
― Marquis de Lafayette

“The happiness of America is intimately connected with the happiness of all mankind; she will become the safe and respected asylum of virtue, integrity, toleration, equality, and tranquil happiness.”
― Marquis de Lafayette

“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.”
― Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette