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Lafayette's Testimony
"His honesty, his frankness, his sensibility, his virtue... are above all praise. No enemies to that great man can be found, except among the enemies to his country."
Sometimes the most revealing testimony comes not from admirers looking backward, but from friends who knew a man while history was still being written.
— Lafayette to Baron von Steuben, March 12, 1778