Constitution Quote by Marquis de Lafayette
“It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assured that the rights it guarantees will be respected with such a scrupulous fidelity as will reduce to despair its enemies, hidden or avowed.”
![“If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months.” quote by Marquis de Lafayette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa1/marquis-de-lafayette-9735_america_if-you-were-lost-for-america-there-is-no_138543.jpg)
![“Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this…” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/449/abraham-lincoln-88_adoption_next-came-the-patent-laws-these-began-in_1828.jpg)
