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

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  If you find anything better than justice, truth, temperance and fortitude, turn to it with all your soul. But if you find nothing better, give place to nothing else.

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  If what you do is right, why are you afraid of those who will find fault wrongly?

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  We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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  But to set one’s foot on the neck of tyranny and bring it to know what is right, that is man’s most sacred duty!

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  If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

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