Quotes About Lafayette

Hot Boyz always shouted out a lot of things relevant to Texas so I connected with it. They were our neighbors and growing up we went to Louisiana every year for Mardi Gras, Bayou Classic and the Essence festival, so we grew up taking trips to Lafayette and New Orleans. Those were three annual trips.

Lafayette, who later claimed, "I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery.

[As U.S. forces joined the Allies:] Lafayette, we are here.

The last bartender I called had picked me up out of an alley behind a B-girl joint in Lafayette's old Underpass area, a one-block collection of buildings that was so stark and unrelieved, whose inhabitants were so lost and disconnected from the normal world, that if you found yourself drinking there, you could rest assured you had finally achieved the goal you long ago set for yourself: the total destruction of the innocent child who once lived inside you.

In a letter of Lafayette to Washington ("Paris, 12 Jan., 1790") he writes: "Common Sense is writing for you a brochure where you will see a part of my adventures." It thus appears that the narrative embodied in the reply to Burke ("Rights of Man," Part I.), dedicated to Washington, was begun with Lafayette's collaboration fourteen months before its publication (March 13, 1791).

I became obnoxious to the Jacobins because I reprobated their aristocracy, which aimed at usurping all legitimate authority.

When Lafayette was first planning his mission, Franklin told him that "much will depend on a prudent and brave sea commander who knows the coasts." They settled instead for a commander who was, as Franklin was already well aware, more brave than prudent: John Paul Jones.

Lafayette was a splendid man...with a marvelous, self-depreciating sense of humor. He was, for example, balding noticeably when he reached an Indian outpost...and he calmed his wife's anxieties by noting that "I cannot lose what I do not have.

Lafayette told the duke, as the latter read the document, "and I see the Constitution of the United States as the most perfect document in existence.

Silicon Bayou - aka Lafayette, LA - is the best kept secret reservoir of innovation mojo in America

Being born an aristocrat, Lafayette was interested in his own wishes, seeing others' freedoms in the abstract, and had sympathy but not a deep understanding of the poor

Lafayette framed and hung The Declaration of Independence in his office beside an empty frame awaiting, he said, France's declaration of citizens' rights.

Lafayette read his masterpiece: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

Two months after leaving Paris, Lafayette, began calling himself "general" and, rejecting his marquisate

On July 13, two days after Lafayette presented his Declaration, he was elected vice president of the National Assembly. No one else possessed the charisma of "the hero of two worlds.

Lafayette learned from Catherine: he would respect all people on merit and champion the oppressed.

Lafayette saw himself as the protector of royalty; they [the king and his family] considered him its gaoler.

I think Lafayette wants to rap in French now. I have to go learn some French.Damn it, Lafayette.

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.

There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

General John Pershing's famous (if probably apocryphal) "Lafayette, we are here

That Lafayette was a man of genius is a thought that cannot for a moment be entertained.

Lafayette never grew up.

To practical people, Lafayette appeared not as the rallying point of the liberals, but as the Quixote of liberty