My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.
A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.
The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.
Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.