God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.


Quoted in Elizabeth Abbott, Haiti: An insider's history of the rise and fall of the Duvaliers (1988), p. 112.

François Duvalier Quotes

God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.

God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.

God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.

God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.