Quotes by : Marquis de Lafayette

Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general....

The continental troops have as much courage and real discipline as those that are opposed to them. They....

I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared with....

All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools....

I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors....

Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the Continental....

May the States be so bound to each other as forever to defy European politics. Upon that union, their....

From an early period, I had the happiness to rank among the foremost in the American Revolution. In the....

May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news of....

It was by a Maryland colonel in the year 1777 that the British received, in the gallant defense of an....