We are free today because we are the stronger; we ... -Toussaint Louverture

We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.

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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....
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, brot...
I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish....
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....
The heads of regiments are required to see that the troops join in prayer morning and evening as far as the service will permit....
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 ...
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 Repub...
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 sha...
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 f...
We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger....

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A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad g...
We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation....
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