May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news of her noble exertions in continuance of those principles which have placed her so high in the annals of history and among the nations of the earth.

Marquis De Lafayette
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  1. The happiness of America is intimately connected with the happiness of all mankind; she is destined to become the safe and venerable asylum of virtue, of honesty, of tolerance, and quality and of peaceful liberty.

  2. 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 indispensible of duties.

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

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

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

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