Lafayette Quotes

“Bunker Hill Monument. This aspect of the trip would be internationally significant and, for the Masons, the event of the century. The”
― Donald Miller, Lafayette: His Extraordinary Life and Legacy

“Shortly after the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory in 1803, Lafayette received a letter from President Thomas Jefferson offering him the governorship. Citing family disabilities, particularly his ill wife, Lafayette turned it down.”
― Donald Miller, Lafayette: His Extraordinary Life and Legacy

“In one of the era’s many ironies, Claude Rouget de Lisle wrote a war chant for the Army of the Rhine and dedicated it to Lückner. But when the toughs from the south sang it fervently in Paris, it became La Marseillaise, the national anthem.”
― Donald Miller, Lafayette: His Extraordinary Life and Legacy

“The king and queen wanted to be done with him, although Louis seemed pleased to see him soon after the motley invasion. But the queen’s blue eyes remained cold. “It would be better to perish,” she quipped, “than to be saved by M. de Lafayette.”
― Donald Miller, Lafayette: His Extraordinary Life and Legacy

“Two months after leaving Paris, Lafayette, began calling himself “general” and, rejecting his marquisate,”
― Donald Miller, Lafayette: His Extraordinary Life and Legacy

“Lafayette was in charge. He had championed the Assembly, saved Versailles from the mob, put down rebellions and returned the monarch to the people. He was greatly relieved the day had not gone worse.”
― Donald Miller, Lafayette: His Extraordinary Life and Legacy

“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”
― Donald Miller, Lafayette: His Extraordinary Life and Legacy

“His weakness was a thirst for glory but none for power.”
― Donald Miller, Lafayette: His Extraordinary Life and Legacy

“He seemed to possess superhuman ability, dispersing many thousands in the square from time to time with a wave of his hand.”
― Donald Miller, Lafayette: His Extraordinary Life and Legacy

“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.”
― Donald Miller, Lafayette: His Extraordinary Life and Legacy

“Lafayette read his masterpiece: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.”
― Donald Miller, Lafayette: His Extraordinary Life and Legacy

“Lafayette framed and hung The Declaration of Independence in his office beside an empty frame awaiting, he said, France’s declaration of citizens’ rights.”
― Donald Miller, Lafayette: His Extraordinary Life and Legacy

“was all on fire to have a uniform.”
― Donald Miller, Lafayette: His Extraordinary Life and Legacy

“I longed for glory. I remember nothing of my childhood more than my fervor for tales of glory and my plans to travel the world in quest of fame.”
― Donald Miller, Lafayette: His Extraordinary Life and Legacy

“When he was almost two, his father was killed in battle during the Seven Years War, the world’s first global combat.”
― Donald Miller, Lafayette: His Extraordinary Life and Legacy

“Lafayette learned from Catherine: he would respect all people on merit and champion the oppressed.”
― Donald Miller, Lafayette: His Extraordinary Life and Legacy