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“Ah, but ‘tis said that anyone who loves and serves America is American. You, of all people, should know that, General.” “Touche’ Brother.”
― The Lafayette Circle
― The Lafayette Circle
“After all, Lafayette was a public figure, not a governing ruler or official of any country or regime. But they were not out to kill a citizen, a royal, or an official. They were out to kill an idea.”
― The Lafayette Circle
― The Lafayette Circle
“The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.
Address to the Continental Army before the Battle of Long Island, 27 August 1776”
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Address to the Continental Army before the Battle of Long Island, 27 August 1776”
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