Quotes

Morality and enlightenment are our first necessities.

Those who have served the revolution have ploughed the sea.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Soldiers, from the top of these pyramids, forty centuries look down upon you.

From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step.

Impossible is not French.

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

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.

Beware of shedding blood and of making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps.

I begin to speak only when I am certain that what I shall say is not better left unsaid.

It is sweet, when on the great sea the winds trouble the waters, to watch from land another’s great struggle.

Nothing can be created out of nothing.