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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
Unite; for combination is stronger than witchcraft.
— Toussaint Louverture
The synonyme of usury is ruin.
— Samuel Johnson
I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.
— Toussaint Louverture
Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!
— Toussaint Louverture
The sun came through the branches of the tree above her, and Ruth looked up past them. "I think she listens," she said, too softly to be heard.
— Alice Sebold
I made up my mind that nothing,, nothing was going to stop me Not even me.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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
This gun is liberty; hold for certain that the day when you no more have it, you will be returned to slavery.
— Toussaint Louverture
He liked murder. Murder and long walks had been two of his favorite things when he was younger.
— Derek Landy
The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.
— George Bernard Shaw
Headers from the last few great daily papers,
— David Foster Wallace
I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.
— Toussaint Louverture
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
I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.
— Toussaint Louverture
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
We all have things we are ashamed of.
— Amy Ewing
Either I will come back after hoisting the Tricolor, or I will come back wrapped in it, but I will be back for sure.
— Vikram Batra
I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.
— Toussaint Louverture
More than 150 types of boats appear in Egyptian hieroglyphics.
— Stewart Gordon
Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.
— Michel De Montaigne
It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.
— Toussaint Louverture
I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.
— Toussaint Louverture
The eyes were steady, and told me no more than would my own, seen in a looking glass.
— Diana Gabaldon