Marquis de Lafayette Quotes

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

My grand affair appears settled, for America is certain of her independence, humanity has gained her cause, and liberty will never be without a place of refuge.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.

Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all -- liberty!

Freedom and liberty should not be sold for all the gold and silver in the world.

There is a word sweeter than Mother, Home, or Heaven; that word is Liberty

There is nothing as important as freedom and independence.

The liberty we prize is not America’s gift to the world, it is God’s gift to humanity.

Liberty, the soul of everything. Without you, life is dead.

Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.

Liberty and Independence forever.

Where liberty dwells, there is my country.

We will be very persistent when it comes to enforcing freedom, justice, and self-determination on the European continent.

From my own country of France, I commit to pursuing the path of liberty - to be a free people.

When Estonia reestablished its sovereignty after a half century of successive thuggish, totalitarian, foreign occupations by the Soviets, the Nazis, and then again the Soviets, we knew we wanted to create a democratic country characterized by rule of law and respect for human rights.

Liberty is the most important thing.

We are the voice of freedom.

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

I would contend that we place no other value above the right to be free. We will die for our freedom. In fact, we believe freedom is sufficiently important that we will even die so that others around the globe might be free.

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.