The Last Adieu Quotes

“Lafayette is a walking monument in search of his pedestal. Whether his path leads him to the scaffolds or to the chair of the President of the Republic, he wouldn’t give a dime for the choice,”
― Ryan Cole, The Last Adieu: Lafayette’s Triumphant Return, the Echoes of Revolution, and the Gratitude of the Republic

“In the words of Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner, it was “an episode which belongs to the poetry of history.”
― Ryan Cole, The Last Adieu: Lafayette’s Triumphant Return, the Echoes of Revolution, and the Gratitude of the Republic