Quotes by Marquis De Lafayette - Page 2

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 / Political Figure
Half
Prisoner
Secured
Accepts
Defend
Fully
Oppose
Promised
Refuses
Service
Shall
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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.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Men
Exercise
Rights
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It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assured that the rights it guarantees will be respected with such a scrupulous fidelity as will reduce to despair its enemies, hidden or avowed.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Assured
Citizens
Constitution
Despair
Fidelity
Guarantees
Rights
Above
Avowed
Enemies
Round
Hidden
Necessary
Reduce
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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.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Names
Race
Sound
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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.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Ambition
Passion
Strong
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May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news of her noble exertions in continuance of those principles which have placed her so high in the annals of history and among the nations of the earth.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Continuance
Nations
News
Noble
Principles
Rejoice
Among
Humbled
Enemies
Placed
Silenced
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The Emperor Napoleon, ascending gradually from his post of national magistrate to seat himself upon a throne without limits, seems to have wished to punish, as for the abuse of republican reforms, by making us feel all the weight of absolute monarchy.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Abuse
Ascending
Emperor
Limits
Monarchy
Seems
Weight
Absolute
Seat
Gradually
Himself
Reforms
Magistrate
Napoleon
National
Post
Punish
Throne
Wished
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An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Conviction
Decided
Enthusiasm
Innate
Irresistible
Liberty
Passion
Prophecy
Religious
Lover
Induce
Religious Man
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Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Ambition
Frankness
Glory
Intriguing
Liberty
Republic
Self Interest
Happiness Work Good
Defender
Offer
Services
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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 / Political Figure
Fidelity
Firmness
Moral
Resolve
Rights
Sufficient
Twenty Five
Me Feel Happy
Civil
Nation
Duties
Preserve
Recover
Repeating
Rigid
Warrant
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We still are pestered by two parties: the aristocratic, which is panting for a counter revolution, and the factious, which aims at the division of the empire and destruction of the authority - and perhaps of the lives - of the reigning branch, both of which parties are fomenting troubles.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Aristocratic
Authority
Destruction
Division
Revolution
Aims
Counter
Branch
Empire
Parties
Perhaps
Reigning
Troubles
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All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation of the weak, the compromises of conscience, and the tardiness of patriotism. Let every deputy, every Frenchman show what he feels, what he thinks, and we are saved!
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Patriotism
Conscience
Feels
France
Hesitation
Saved
Tardiness
Violence
Weak
Wicked
Show
Less
Compromises
Deputy
Evils
Fools
Frenchman
Produced
Thinks
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Though my conduct on the 10th of August 1792 was the act of my life of which I have most reason to be proud, I will here merely do homage to the worthy martyrs of the national sovereignty and the sworn laws, who, while they supported constitutional royalty, manifested the highest degree of republican virtue.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
August
Homage
Proud
Reason
Royalty
Sovereignty
Virtue
Worthy
Life Will My Life
Act
Conduct
Constitutional
Degree
Life My Life Will
Highest Degree
Manifested
Martyrs
Merely
National
Sworn
Though
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Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the Continental Union. Depend upon it: there lies the danger for America. This last stroke is wanting, and unless the states be strongly bound to each other, we have to fear from British and, indeed, from European politics.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
America
Articles
British
Confederation
Continental
Danger
States
Taken
Bound
Depend
Each
European
Immediately
Indeed
Last
Lies
Measures
Other
Union
Revised
Stroke
Wanting
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The days of the revolution now give place to the period of regular organization, liberty, and prosperity, which that revolution guarantees. Thus, when everything concurs for the pacification of internal troubles, the threats of the enemies of France must, in the face of the public happiness, appear even to themselves insensate.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
France
Guarantees
Liberty
Organization
Prosperity
Revolution
Appear
Period
Enemies
Internal
Regular
Threats
Thus
Troubles
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The affairs of America I shall ever look upon as my first business whilst I am in Europe. Any confidence from the king and ministers, any popularity I may have among my own countrymen, any means in my power, shall be, to the best of my skill, and till the end of my life, exerted in behalf of an interest I have so much at heart.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Confidence
Behalf
Countrymen
Ministers
Popularity
Life Best Business
Affairs
Among
Exerted
Till
Shall
Skill
Whilst
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During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!'
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Happiness
America
Congress
Enjoyed
Example
France
Oppressed
Revolution
Said
Seeing
Speech
Thinking
Everywhere
Completed
French
Last
Lesson
Occur
Published
Serve
Voyage
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I am able to say that I was very much liked at the school. I even had quite some ascendancy over my comrades, and as soon as I appeared in the school yard, I was surrounded by young friends, most of them bigger than I, but who were quite willing to give the appearance of disciples; they would have defended me furiously if necessary.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Appearance
Ascendancy
Bigger
Willing
I Am Me School
Defended
Comrades
Liked
Disciples
Soon
Surrounded
Yard
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Any commands which Congress may have for me shall be cheerfully executed by one of their earliest soldiers, whose happiness it is to think that, at a less smiling moment, he had the honor to be adopted by America, and whose blood, exertions, and affections will in her good times, as they have been in her worst, be entirely at her service.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Adopted
Blood
Congress
Good Times
Honor
Worst
Affections
Cheerfully
Commands
Earliest
Entirely
Executed
Service
Shall
Smiling
Soldiers
Whose
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Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage, the welfare and liberty of my country, and believe that I shall refuse no burden, no danger, provided that, at the hour of tranquillity, I may return to private life, for there now remains but one step for my ambition - that of arriving at zero.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Zero
Advantage
Ambition
Arriving
Burden
Danger
Liberty
Private Life
Recompense
Remains
Return
Tranquillity
Welfare
Accept
Life Done Believe
Calculate
Hour
Private
Provided
Shall
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I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can. I shall not speak much for fear of saying foolish things; I will risk still less for fear of doing them, for I am not disposed to abuse the confidence which they have deigned to show me. Such is the conduct which until now I have followed and will follow.
Marquis De Lafayette / Political Figure
Common Sense
Ideas
Risk
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