Quotes

Everyone is born to die but once; honour and shame live forever!

Let the struggle be unceasing, let be what cannot be!

Fear for one’s life often stains one’s honour.

Heroism is the emperor over every evil, and the sweetest drink of the soul, on which whole generations grow drunk.

It is easy to be good when all is well; it is in hardship that heroes are known!

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.

I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.

But in solitude their head is upright and pure above the dark mob.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Ever onward to victory!

Impossible is not French.

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.