Quotes by Toussaint Louverture - Page 1

Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Mother
Sloth
Vices
Avoid
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Unite; for combination is stronger than witchcraft.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Combination
Stronger
Unity
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I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Men
Slave
Soul
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It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Cutting
Liberty
Tree
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I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Freedom
Arms
Color
Will
Own
Defend
Our
Up
Perish
Took
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I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Carrying
Necessary
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I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Conscience
Devoted
Honor
Republic
Expense
Faithfully
Serve
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This gun is liberty; hold for certain that the day when you no more have it, you will be returned to slavery.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Certain
Gun
Liberty
Slavery
Day
Hold
Returned
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I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Army
Retirement
Wish
Myself People Live
Accept
Favorable
For The People
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They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Roots
Tree
Will
Me
Again
Deep
Down
Shoot
Trunk
Struck
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We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Government
Stronger
Today
Because
Again
Free
Becomes
Government Free Will
Slaves
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The heads of regiments are required to see that the troops join in prayer morning and evening as far as the service will permit.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Evening
Permit
Prayer
Troops
Heads
Join
Required
Service
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I know how to move the people, but I know also where to stop in my own actions so that, when I strike, I shall be felt and not seen.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Felt
My Own
Actions
Where People Know
Also
People Know Stop
Own
Seen
Move
Stop
Shall
Strike
Where
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We went to labor in the fields, my wife and I, hand in hand. Scarcely were we conscious of the fatigues of the day. Heaven always blessed our toil.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Blessed
Conscious
Fields
Heaven
Labor
Toil
Scarcely
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The Spanish offered me their protection, and liberty to those who would fight for the cause of the kings. I accepted their offers, seeing myself entirely abandoned by my brethren, the French.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Abandoned
Accepted
Brethren
Liberty
Protection
Seeing
Myself Fight Me
Cause
French
Fight
Entirely
Offered
Spanish
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I have undertaken vengeance. I want Liberty and Equality to reign in Saint-Domingue. I work to bring them into existence. Unite yourselves to us, brothers, and fight with us for the same cause.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Equality
Work
Existence
Liberty
Reign
Vengeance
Want
Same
Bring
Them
Brothers
Cause
Fight
Undertaken
Unite
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God, who knows our most secret thoughts and who sees all, is witness to the purity of my principles. They are not founded on this barbarous ferocity that takes pleasure in shedding human blood.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Blood
Ferocity
Pleasure
Principles
Purity
Secret
Witness
Founded
Sees
Thoughts
Shedding
Takes
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It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Alone
Adoption
Black
Black Or White
Born
Conceded
Fellow Man
Liberty
Property
Red
White
Wish
Absolute
Man
Circumstance
Fellow
His
Principle
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I have taken my flight in the region of eagles; when I alight, it must be on a rock, and that rock must be a constitutional government, of which I shall be the head so long as I shall be among men.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Constitutional Government
Eagles
Flight
Taken
Alight
Men Government Must
Among
Constitutional
Head
Rock
Region
Shall
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At the beginning of the troubles of Saint Domingo, I felt that I was destined to great things. When I received this divine intimation, I was four and fifty years of age; I could neither read nor write.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Destined
Divine
Felt
Fifty
Great Things
Saint
Beginning
Neither
Nor
Received
Troubles
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The revolution of Saint Domingo was taking its course. I saw that the whites could not endure, because they were divided and because they were overpowered by numbers; I congratulated myself that I was a black man.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Black
Divided
Endure
Numbers
Revolution
Saint
Course
Saw
Taking
Whites
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I have published a proclamation: 'Forgive us our transgressions as we forgive those who transgress against us.' I have ordered all citizens to return to their parishes to enjoy the benefits of this general amnesty.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Amnesty
Benefits
Citizens
Enjoy
Proclamation
Return
General
Forgive
Ordered
Published
Transgress
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Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me to remain silent, my duty compels me to prevent them from doing any more harm.
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Character
Enemy
Needs
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Mastered by deadly passions, Rigaud has dug a gulf at your feet; he has laid snares which you could not avoid. He wished to have you as partisans in his revolt; and to succeed in his object, he has employed falsehood and seduction.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Employed
Falsehood
Feet
Revolt
Seduction
Succeed
Avoid
Deadly
Dug
Gulf
Laid
Mastered
Object
Passions
Snare
Wished
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General Biassou is a simple, vulnerable man without much knowledge, and he is easily led astray by the scoundrels surrounding him. He has sworn eternal hatred for me, and for some time now, he has been trying to destroy me using whatever means he can.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Eternal
Scoundrels
Astray
General
Easily
Destroy
Led
Surrounding
Sworn
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I invite you, citizens, to open your eyes and to give serious attention to the future. Reflect on the disasters which may ensue from longer obstinacy. Submit to lawful authority, if you wish to preserve the South untouched. Save your families and your property.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Attention
Authority
Citizens
Obstinacy
Property
Serious
South
Submit
Wish
Open
Disasters
Eyes
Families
Invite
Lawful
Longer
Open Your Eyes
Preserve
Reflect
Save
Untouched
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The whites have resolved to destroy our liberty and have therefore brought a force commensurate to their intentions. The Cape, after a proper resistance, has fallen into their hands, but the enemy found only a town and plain in ashes; the forts were blown up, and all was burnt.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Ashes
Enemy
Fallen
Force
Hands
Liberty
Resistance
Blown
Brought
Burnt
Cape
Destroy
Intentions
Plain
Proper
Therefore
Whites
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I am kind; I am humane. I open to you my fatherly arms. Come, all of you; I will receive you all - no less those of the South than those of the West, and of the North, who, gained over by Rigaud, have deserted your firesides, your wives, your children, to place yourselves at his side.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Arms
Deserted
Humane
West
Open
Side
Gained
North
Receive
Wives
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Citizens, not less generous than myself, let your most precious moments be employed in causing the past to be forgotten; let all my fellow-citizens swear never to recall the past; let them receive their misled brethren with open arms, and let them, in future, be on their guard against the traps of bad men.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Arms
Brethren
Citizens
Employed
Forgotten
Generous
Misled
Moments
Open Arms
Swear
Traps
Bad Men
Less
Open
Causing
Guard
Precious
Recall
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I shall not remind you, Citizen-Directors, of all I have done for the triumph of liberty, the prosperity of St. Domingo, the glory of the French Republic; nor will I protest to you my attachment to our mother country, to my duties; my respect to the constitution, to the laws of the Republic, and my submission to the government.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Respect
Government
Attachment
Done
Glory
Liberty
Mother
Prosperity
Republic
Submission
Triumph
French
Duties
Nor
Remind
Shall
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When it shall be known that, at the time which I was accused of wishing to sunder this island from France - my benefactress - I repeated the oath of fidelity to her, I take pleasure in believing that the government I own, and my fellow-citizens, will render me the justice I merit, and that the enemies of my brethren will be reduced to silence.
Toussaint Louverture / Political Leader
Accused
Brethren
Fidelity
France
Merit
Oath
Pleasure
Silence
Believing
Enemies
Island
Reduced
Render
Shall
Wishing
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