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

Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable 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.

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.

Till the hour when the trump of the Archangel shall sound to announce that Time shall be no more, the name of Lafayette shall stand enrolled upon the annals of our race, high on the list of the pure and disinterested benefactors of mankind.

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

In my idea General Washington is the greatest man; for I look upon him as the most virtuous.