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

    Marquis de Lafayette: True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.
    "Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions" by Lloyd Kramer, (p. 256), 1999.