Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love.

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.

Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights.

If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months.

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.

Ambition, as that passion is generally understood,- a strong desire to rise above others, to occupy the first place, - formed no part of Lafayette's character. In him the passion was nothing more than a constant and irresistible wish to do good.