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. (Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette)

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.

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

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