Carolina QuotesHumanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette Connected to the Carolinas
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Letter to friends (1780), published in Memoirs de La Fayette Vol. II, p. 50, quoted in Martin's History of France : The Decline of the French Monarchy (1866) by Henri Martin, Vol. II, p. 418 — Variant translations: — Humanity has gained its suit : Liberty will never more be without an asylum. — As quoted in Oration on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Surrender of Lord Cornwallis to the Combined Forces of America and France: At Yorktown, Virginia, 19th October, 1781: Delivered at Yorktown, 19th October, 1881 (1881), by Robert Charles Winthrop, p. 53 — Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country. — As quoted in French Contributions to America (1945) by Edward Fecteau
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