Quotes from 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!

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.

Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!

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.

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