Quotes by : Marquis de Lafayette

Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a....

The king knows with what ardor and perseverance I have at all times been devoted to the cause of liberty....

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....

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

My grand affair appears settled, for America is certain of her independence, humanity has gained her....

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....