I want liberty and equality to reign in Saint-Domingue.

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  In overthrowing me, you have cut down in Saint-Domingue only the trunk of the tree of liberty; it will spring up again from the roots, for they are deep and many.

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  Out of constables we have made grandees, idiots have shared out the honours, thieves are making rich men for us, dark souls have called themselves patriots.

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  Everyone has the right to say what he thinks, but there is no law that forces anyone to listen.

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  Every usurer and scoundrel could buy himself, for a few pennies, the title of ‘great patriot of the people’.

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  There were many liberal laws, and no freedom at all.

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  War propaganda comes down, in the end, to substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings.

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