I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.

I am kind; I am humane. I open to you my fatherly arms. Come, all of you; I will receive you all - no less those of the South than those of the West, and of the North, who, gained over by Rigaud, have deserted your firesides, your wives, your children, to place yourselves at his side.

I shall not remind you, Citizen-Directors, of all I have done for the triumph of liberty, the prosperity of St. Domingo, the glory of the French Republic; nor will I protest to you my attachment to our mother country, to my duties; my respect to the constitution, to the laws of the Republic, and my submission to the government.

We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.

This gun is liberty; hold for certain that the day when you no more have it, you will be returned to slavery.

I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.