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....

It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.

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....

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....

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....