Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.


Marquis de Sade

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I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my col...
MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE
It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.
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All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of ...
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My heart has always been truly convinced that in serving the cause of America, I am fighting for the...
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Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
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Charleston is one of the best built, handsomest, and most agreeable cities that I have ever seen.
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The good fortune of America is closely tied to the good fortune of all humanity.
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I am astonished but not discouraged by my enormous responsibility. Devoted both from affection and d...
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I can assure the Marquis de Chasteler that it is my unalterable determination never to set foot on a...
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Though my conduct on the 10th of August 1792 was the act of my life of which I have most reason to b...
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It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assu...
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The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness ...
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I had displeased the jacobins by blaming their aristocratic usurpation of legitimate powers; the pri...
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We still are pestered by two parties: the aristocratic, which is panting for a counter revolution, a...
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I became obnoxious to the Jacobins because I reprobated their aristocracy, which aimed at usurping a...
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I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared ...
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The king knows with what ardor and perseverance I have at all times been devoted to the cause of lib...
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Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the C...
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The Emperor Napoleon, ascending gradually from his post of national magistrate to seat himself upon ...
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I am able to say that I was very much liked at the school. I even had quite some ascendancy over my ...
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Do not let us despair of the cause of liberty: it is still dear to the hearts of Frenchmen, and we s...
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No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his ...
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From an early period, I had the happiness to rank among the foremost in the American Revolution. In ...
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If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clerg...
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Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer...
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Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on ...
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One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider&...
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May these happy United States attain that complete splendour and prosperity which will illustrate th...
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The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their c...
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Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
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When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each p...
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Few maxims are true in every respect
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