Phrase by 'Toussaint Louverture'

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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.

Author: Toussaint Louverture - Haitian Leader
  Honor , I Am , Will , Conscience


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.

Author: Toussaint Louverture - Haitian Leader
  Blood , God , Thoughts , Secret


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.

Author: Toussaint Louverture - Haitian Leader
  Myself , Black , Man , Revolution


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.

Author: Toussaint Louverture - Haitian Leader
  People , Know , My Own , Stop


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.

Author: Toussaint Louverture - Haitian Leader
  Day , Blessed , Wife , Heaven


The heads of regiments are required to see that the troops join in prayer morning and evening as far as the service will permit.

Author: Toussaint Louverture - Haitian Leader
  Morning , Evening , Prayer , Service


I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.

Author: Toussaint Louverture - Haitian Leader
  Me , Want , Need , War


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.

Author: Toussaint Louverture - Haitian Leader
  You , Children , I Am , Place


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.

Author: Toussaint Louverture - Haitian Leader
  You , Your , Feet , Succeed


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.

Author: Toussaint Louverture - Haitian Leader
  Beginning , Great , Age , Great Things


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