Peale, Charles Willson, Portrait of Marquis de Lafayette, 1779
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, was born on this day 1757.
True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights.
Marquis de Lafayette
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