Toussaint Louverture Quotes

I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my Honor.

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

I still had some honor... I still have some now.

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

David Robinson chose to stay at Navy. He talked about commitment, loyalty and values. I wonder how many of us would choose these virtues rather than the chance of becoming a millionaire, especially if you were a college sophomore when you had to make that choice.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

I want no presidency; I want to do my duty. No denunciations here, or out of this House, can deflect me a single inch from going directly at what I aim, and that is, the good of the country. I have always acted upon it, and I will always act upon it.

I will not betray my country.

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

I'll never go against my morals.

I swear in front of my mother’s grave and in the presence of God, that I shall not hesitate to join her if this be necessary for the defense of the sovereignty which the nation has won at the cost of so much blood. I deem it a debt of conscience and honor to give my life for the sake of national sovereignty.

He gave up all to serve the republic. Omnia relinquit servare rem publicam.

I would rather risk my Crown than do what I think personally disgraceful ... it is impossible that the nation shall not stand by me; if they will not, they shall have another King.

I hate causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

A good woman is one who loves her husband and loves her country and has no desire to run either of them.

From here on there will be two kinds of men—traitors and patriots. I prefer to be associated with the latter.

It is a demand with which I regret that my sense of honor, and of my obligation to my Government, prevent my compliance.

... a man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

I would rather have a man that knows and loves what he fights for... than a man which you call a "gentleman".

And even if I were alone, ... I should have the consolation ... to the last moment of my existence ... that no word of mine has tended to the squandering of my country's treasure or the spilling of one single drop of my country's blood.

I put my country and my principles first.

I wanted to put the national interest before my personal interests.