Best 5 quotes in «lafayette quotes» category

The elimination of force at all costs is Utopian and the new movement which has arisen in the country and of whose dawn we have given a warning is inspired by the ideals which Guru Gobind Singh and Shivaji, Kamal Pasha and Reza Khan, Washington and Garibaldi, Lafayette and Lenin preached.

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

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

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

158 Lewis Avenue between Lafayette and Van Buren, that was back durin days of hangin' on my bed-stuy block