Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette Quote

I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery.


As quoted in a letter by Thomas Clarkson (3 October 1845), published in The Liberty Bell (1846), p. 64


I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery.

I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery.

I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery.

I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery.