"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

06 September 2021

Happy Birthday, Lafayette

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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