"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."

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

"I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can."

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

There weren't many quotes I could find from him. But he was an amazing man of whom I believed had a disliking for slavery. RIP Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. (That's his full name. Wow.)