31 Quotes by Toussaint Louverture

It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.

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.

Unite; for combination is stronger than witchcraft.

I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.

I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.

They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!

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

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.

This gun is liberty; hold for certain that the day when you no more have it, you will be returned to slavery.