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Marquis de Lafayette

Marquis de Lafayette participated in both the French and American Revolutions.   He served as a Major General in the Continental Army, under George Washington, his lifelong friend.  Lafayette's battles included Brandywine, Barron Hill, Monmouth, and Yorktown .

Lafayette drafted the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.   He argued for habeas corpus rights, religious tolerance, popular representation, jury trials, the emancipation of slaves, and freedom of the press.

"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country."

"If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy."

"True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people... There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate."

"When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensable of duties."

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