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

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

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

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

Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.

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.