Top 60 Quotes by Marquis de Lafayette

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These are some quotes by French author Marquis de Lafayette Revolutionary, who lived between September 6, 1757 and May 20, 1834.

If the king refuses the constitution, I shall oppose him; if he accepts it, I shall defend him; and the day on which he gave himself up as my prisoner secured me more fully to his service than if he had promised me half his kingdom.

Marquis de Lafayette

One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider's whip would make obedient. I depicted this perfect horse throwing his rider at the sight of the whip.

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 sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.

Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.

Marquis de Lafayette

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.

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.

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Nothing hurts so much the interest and reputation of America as to hear of their intestine quarrels.

Nothing hurts so much the interest and reputation of America as to hear of their intestine quarrels.

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I feel happy that twenty-five years of vicissitudes in my fortune, and firmness in my principles, warrant me in repeating here that if, to recover her rights, it is sufficient for a nation to resolve to do so, she can preserve them only by rigid fidelity to her civil and moral duties.

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.

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.

Marquis de Lafayette

Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.

Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.

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The more I see, hear, and think in Europe, the more I wish for every measure that can ensure to the United States dignity, power, and public confidence.

The more I see, hear, and think in Europe, the more I wish for every measure that can ensure to the United States dignity, power, and public confidence.

Marquis de Lafayette

I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.

I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.

Marquis de Lafayette

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