Toussaint Louverture (François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture) Quotes

God, who knows our most secret thoughts and who sees all, is witness to the purity of my principles. They are not founded on this barbarous ferocity that takes pleasure in shedding human blood.

Toussaint Louverture

• God
• Human
• Knows
• Pleasure
• Blood
• Principles
• Most
• Purity
• Founded

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• The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

  

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• Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

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• God, who knows our most secret thoughts and who sees all, is witness to the purity of my principles. They are not founded on this barbarous ferocity that takes pleasure in shedding human blood.

  

  Toussaint Louverture
  • God
  • Human
  • Knows