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Marquis de Lafayette

French Revolutionary

Born: Sep 6, 1757

Died: May 20, 1834

Happiness Liberty Me People Rights Will

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I have found a unique opportunity to distinguish myself and to learn my trade. I am a general officer in the army of the United States of America. My zeal in their cause and my frankness have won their trust. Marquis de Lafayette

Myself Army Trust Opportunity Cause States Distinguish Frankness General Learn Trade Am Won Officer America Unique Unique Opportunity Zeal Found United United States United States Of America

It is foolishly thought by some that democratical constitutions will not, cannot, last; that the States will quarrel with each other; that a king, or at least a nobility, are indispensable for the prosperity of a nation. Marquis de Lafayette

Prosperity Will Thought King Nation Other States Some Constitutions Indispensable Foolishly Nobility Quarrel Least Cannot Each Last

In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens have the same rights as the richest individual, or landed proprietor, in the country. Marquis de Lafayette

Property Rights Citizen Country Citizens Some Individual None America Same Poor Landed Richest Even Each Peasants

Paris is in a tranquil state; the infernal cabal that besieges me appears guided by foreigners. This idea consoles me, for nothing is so painful as being persecuted by one's own fellow-citizens. Marquis de Lafayette

Me Own Nothing State Guided Consoles Paris Idea Foreigners Persecuted Infernal Tranquil Being Painful Appears

I had displeased the jacobins by blaming their aristocratic usurpation of legitimate powers; the priests of all sorts by claiming religious liberty; the anarchists by repressing them; and the conspirators by rejecting their offers. Marquis de Lafayette

Liberty Anarchist Claiming Religious Religious Liberty Blaming Had Priests Aristocratic Powers Sort Offers Legitimate Them Usurpation Rejecting

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

Me Rights Happy Nation Resolve Rigid Moral Civil Only Recover Feel Firmness She Principles Years Repeating Duties Fidelity Them Warrant Fortune Twenty-Five Sufficient Her Here Preserve

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